Adding Up My Sins

The Vatican had somehow taken centuries to perceive, that the accumulation of wealth impoverish a lot of people to enrich a relatively few, and had just declared it as mortal sin, to be added to the well established capital sins. This new list contains also seven in number like the other familiar to all:

 

1. Bio-ethical violation: like anti-conception - As a great many other women, I am guilty
2. Experiments morally questionable: investigation of stem cells - Not guilty
3. Drug addiction and trafficking - Definitely not guilty, hate it already without trying it
4. Contamination of environment - More and more conscious of and abiding not to
5. Contributing to the widening of the gap between the rich and the poor - Not in position to do so
6. Excessive wealth - Me? Wishful thinking!
7. Generating poverty - I never generate it but nearly in it
    

The capital sins established, if my memory serves me more or less right, by the Pope Gregorio in the 6th century were the following:

 

1. Haughtiness - I have been told in fact that I am over modest
2. Envy - A teeny weeny bit can serve as incentive, striving for what you envy about, I think, no?
3. Gluttony - Hmmm I do have a hard time checking myself with my favourite chocolate, Ferrero Rocher ... Okay, one or two other delicacies too, red wine ...
4. Lust - Does it count if only lusting over the person you truly love?
5. Anger - Only when unreasonably provoked; does it mean only half guilty?
6. Greed - With certain study, good books, I never think I had enough, maybe just a defect not a sin?
7. Laziness - Guilty!! With housework especially. I don't suppose I can argue that I am not in other areas?

 

So my self assessment would be, that I am not a bad person even with a few occasional sins, which are not illegal, not exactly harmful to myself, and definitely not to others.

 

Would I be wrong if I venture to sum up that, looking at the lists, most of us are sinners? To greater or lesser degrees that is. Personally, I would even venture a little further that, just tiny little doses of some or all of those sins, committed at least in the mind and imagination, is almost quite normal, being human that we are. Some of them even healthy not to go too far as to say beneficial and invigorating, at the right times and under the appropriate circumstances.

 

A person void of all sins and always saintly, to me would signify a real timid, dull and very boring character, lacking self pride of one's achievements, without the slightest dosage of ambition to strive or to go further to see if one can, a very hungry and poor lover, and an aimless workaholic with no desire for success.

 

Gee Whizzz ... Maybe I am even a bigger sinner than I first thought!