 think, I think that this should be fun and should be interesting. And it gives you a perspective because these seven deadly sins, well, it's kind of dogma within a particular branch of Catholicism and so on. You'll be able to see how influential they have been in our culture among Protestants, among secularists, just generally in the culture. These are considered sinful because they're basically represent, they represent altruism, they present applications of altruism and we'll see, for Christianity at least, what you'll see here is what altruism really means. And it doesn't mean helping other people. It doesn't mean helping other people. Riley says, as far as I know, the seven deadly sins are Catholic invention. Yeah, as is all of Christianity, there's a Catholic invention in some respect, right? All right, seven deadly sins, seven deadly sins, kind of a variety of different variations of this existed in early Christianity. Originally, there were eight. They were considered cardinal sins because they led to every other sin possible. They were considered thoughts. They were considered evil thoughts, you know, in a variety, in three different categories, there were eight. But then in 590 AD, Pope Gregory I revised the list. He made it a more common list. He integrated it. He integrated some of the previous ones. He added envy onto the list. And Gregory's list has become the standard list of the sins. Thomas Aquinas defended Gregory's list in his Summa Theologica and he calls them capital sins because they had the head. And form of all the others. So every sin starts with one of these. Just like in Objectivism, we have cardinal values. These are the cardinal sins, capital sins. The Lutheran Church, the other Christian denominations all retained this list. Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist have all retained this. And even the Evangelical, even the modern Evangelicalist, such as Billy Graham, have explicated the seven deadly sins. So this is common Christian dogma. This is not some bizarre one. This is not something out of context. This is not some little cult somewhere. This is common core central to Christian belief. These are things to be avoided. These are the roots of all other sin. This is the essence of being a bad human being. Being an evil human being. Dante in his famous poems, he actually defined all these seven cardinal sins. Defined them in terms of perverse or corrupt versions of love, which is interesting. Interesting. Lust, gluttony, and greed, notice this, are all excessive or disordered love of good things. I don't know what an excessive love of good things is. That's interesting, right? Excessive love of good things. Wrath, envy, and pride are perverted love directed towards others' harm. And it's all exception to sloth, which is a deficiency of love. So sloth is a deficiency of love. So that's Dante in a defined comedy. And, you know, he places different people committing difference of these sins and the different rungs of hell. Remember, these seven deadly sins have deadly consequences. Because if you commit them, you are eternally in hell. And, you know, these are deadly sins. These are sins that lead you to eternal damnation. And you could be in different rungs of hell, as Dante describes in the defined comedy. All right, so let's go over these. Right? I mean, the first one, the most fun one, obviously. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning, any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, whims, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism, and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist brought. All right. 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