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one can be selfish and not be greedy. And greed might involve something other than money.

Look closely at the story of the rich young ruler as seen in Mark.

Jesus lays before the man the second table of the ten commandments and he is pleased and says he has kept all these since his youth. In Mark this statement is met with love. This essentially means he wasn't lying.

Jesus then lays before him the 1st commandment and he leaves downhearted. Is it then because he was greedy for money? It can't be sorry. If he was greedy for money then he could not have done well or for that matter at all the second table of the ten commandments. What then was the problem? I leave it for you to figure out. I know the answer as surely as if I'd been there. And it is not that difficult to work out, have fun.

Greed is it.
Greed,selfishness,me-ism,are opposite to altruism and empathy,
which are essential conditions for getting along with others,
and being fair and reasonable to all.

The difference between covetousness and envy is essentially nil. Gluttony and Greed are first cousins if not brothers.

Dr. Bob Edgar,

You stated: "While the Seven Deadly Sins in Christian theology are important, I think Mahatma Gandhi may have said it just as well for our current cultural experience. Gandhi listed the Seven Deadly SOCIAL Sins as Politics without Principle, Wealth without Work, Commerce without Morality, Pleasure without Conscience, Education without Character, Science without Humanity and Worship without Sacrifice."

It was the Catholic church theologians who came out with the Seven Deadly Sins. It is not "listed" in the Bible as the Ten Commandments was and is. Do all Christian denominations apart from the Catholic church and their adherents accept in toto all these Seven Deadly Sins as listed?

You quoted Mahatma Gandhi's list of Seven Deadly Social Sins as relevant for our times. Is there an update, a reinterpretation, a rethinking of what are the "deadly sins" in the various Christian churches and denominations?

Thank you and best regards.

"J"

Greed, greed, greed!!!!

And you can measure it:

Enron: lost jobs, 4,500 and a loss of $80 billion

WorldCom: lost jobs, 17,000 jobs and a loss of $100 billion.

Qwest Communications: lost jobs, 11,000 and a loss of $32 billion.

Greed indeed but that's not one of the 7 is it? Maybe there's 8, pride, covetnous, lust, gluttony, anger, envy, sloth and greed? Greed is probably the capital of capital sins. But is it deadly?

Agreed, greed is the life blood of the Kudlow creed "I believe free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity." The better class of people all agree with that. And we know God loves the successful more than failures by billions and billions of dollars. So what's with the bashing of Godly capitalism -some kind of Godless communism creeping in here?

Wasn't it Bogart who said, (line from a gangster movie) "no one ever asks where you got it but you're just a bum without it"? He was talking about money he got from a bank robbery. The church has the same attitude doesn't it? The preacher accepts all "gifts to God" doesn't he?

So I guess the real question must be when is a sin a sin. We know that all religions accept lies that cause people to believe as moral. They probably do the same thing for all the deadly sins. I mean, if it's necessary to get the poor boy drunk so he'll give his last cent to God then getting him drunk is moral.

Inescapable, http://www.hoax-buster.org/sellyoursoul for the big money goes to those who lead the multitudes to hell by encouraging them to commit the moral versions of the 7, ah, 8 deadly sins.