Seven Deadly Sins

[John_Owl]

Pride. It's the only that has no self-depreciating qualities. it's the only one that doesn't allow you to recognize it in yourself. And it's the only one that Lucifer himself showed, resulting in him falling from grace.

Source: I've studied multiple bibles in depth. I, myself, am an atheist. However, I was raised baptist.

 

[georgelee5786]

Wrath

 

[RootBeerBert]

I believe Gluttony would actually be the strongest because it embodies overindulgence and excess, and excess is what makes sins harmful in the first place.

Without Sloth, no one would ever rest and would just overwork and burn themselves out.

Without Lust, everyone would devoid of affection or any meaningful relationships or bonds with one another.

Without Greed, no one would ever strive to gain anything for themselves.

Without Wrath, people would just accept any crime or depravity.

Without Envy, the value of the people and things in the world would remain unrecognized and unappreciated

Without Pride, no one acknowledge what they can do and strives to be extraordinary. Everyone is just ordinary.

Then again, you could argue Envy is bad in any capacity, making it the one true “evil” sin and therefore the strongest.

 

[Jerynboe]

Any can damn you, but which is the most destructive? Some have more impact than others. However, impacts may evolve over time too.

For example, the sin of gluttony during times when food was scarce hit differently than in times when we can mass produce GMO food for mass consumption.

The most destructive is the one that brushes against societies weaknesses in that exact moment. I’d say Envy is the strongest force for evil in the last century. The Holocaust, Rwandan genocide, and various communism-backed mass killings were caused by envy at their core. None of the groups who instituted these massacres saw themselves as punching down.

In all of those societies, certain groups were perceived as being unfairly favored. They were supposedly only doing well because they were manipulating things behind the scenes, selfishly hoarding wealth at the expense of others. In the vast majority of cases, especially for individuals who just happened to be of one or another ethnic group, this wasn’t true. It was false wrath, against an enemy that the mob created to justify their own envy.

 

[Anemic_Vampire]

Which sin is the strongest, if they were literal evils, and why? I’d love to hear your interpretation of Christianity’s sins.

This isn’t research for my book, not at all.

Envy! (The sin, I mean.)

Well, pride is often described as the worst sin because having too much pride would mean people will just always love themselves as they are, which is not a bad thing per se. But, they will likely stop improving and adapting, always worshipping their present self, making themselves vulnerable to all the other sins. Think severe Dunning–Kruger effect. (I don't know if this the correct term here, but I used it because it looked cool.)

Other sins are just as bad depending on the situation, but I think envy is vaguely a combination of sloth, greed, and gluttony. Since, envious people want to get what others have instead of finding something else for themselves, something that rightfully belongs to them. They are lazy, greedy, and hungry (I'm too right now).

Wait... what I'm saying here?

 

[LuoirM]

"Greed plants the seed that will destroy us all if we succumb to greed, if we take what we need and we take more than we need. Then our ocean will bleed, still we did and we need..."

Seven Sins - Ren (one of the greatest muscian I know)

 

[AstreiaNyx]

Pride. It's the only that has no self-depreciating qualities. it's the only one that doesn't allow you to recognize it in yourself. And it's the only one that Lucifer himself showed, resulting in him falling from grace.

Source: I've studied multiple bibles in depth. I, myself, am an atheist. However, I was raised baptist.

The more you know the less you believe.

The most destructive is the one that brushes against societies weaknesses in that exact moment. I’d say Envy is the strongest force for evil in the last century. The Holocaust, Rwandan genocide, and various communism-backed mass killings were caused by envy at their core. None of the groups who instituted these massacres saw themselves as punching down.

I thought Holocaust was Hubris.

Think severe Dunning–Kruger effect. (I don't know if this the correct term here, but I used it because it looked cool.)

They are lazy, greedy, and hungry (I'm too right now).

Wait... what I'm saying here?

Dunning-Kruger: The less you know, the more you think you know. Perhaps it relates to Pride.

And you’re saying you need to eat. Here’s a nonexistent cookie.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

Sloth is the strongest. Of course, that is only by playing the long game. The indifference and melancholy of sloth can become an indestructible armor that protects your sleep all the way to the heat death of the universe and for eternity after. Gluttony eventually runs out of things to eat. Wrath cannot survive the destruction of its target. Greed will eventually realize its fragility in the face of a desires that are not possible to fulfill. Lusty pleasures gradually dull the senses they satisfy. Confronted with death, envy becomes self-destructively jealous of the dead. Pride is absorbed in its own glory, and eventually turns inward to celebrate itself in subordination to sloth.

 

[Jerynboe]

I thought Holocaust was Hubris.

Killing gay people and disabled people might have been pride based. The Jews were targeted because they were perceived as being more affluent and it was assumed to be some big Jewish conspiracy keeping the good ethnic Germans from being so successful.

Same thing happened to the Jews everywhere they went for centuries. Historically they have a pattern of being chased out of one place or another, institutionalized hustle culture and networking within the community (who are initially the only people that would work with them anyway) leading them to become successful in their new place, and then being hated for being both visibly “other” and marginally more wealthy on average than their non-Jewish neighbors. It was almost always envy, rather than any meaningful proportion of the Jews actually *doing* anything worthy of hate.

 

[xuduxixi]

Sloth cause they'll just fucking do nothing while you there shouting all your skills like Goku. Once the hero finished everything he had, sloth would just apathetically sigh and go back to it's sleep. That's some emotional damage there.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

None of us would even be here without lust.

 

[TheWolfWriter]

Pride goeth before a fall. A very hardeth fall, mind ye.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Depends on how you weaponize it. Wrath and Pride are the obvious answers, but imagine someone spreading Sloth over a longer timeframe, way less conspicuous than becoming a murder hobo or an arrogant prick. Can't be bothered to cure Sloth after all.

 

[Lloyd]

Pride. It's the only that has no self-depreciating qualities. it's the only one that doesn't allow you to recognize it in yourself. And it's the only one that Lucifer himself showed, resulting in him falling from grace.

Source: I've studied multiple bibles in depth. I, myself, am an atheist. However, I was raised baptist.

You don't have to be an expert lol
God told the angels to serve mankind and Lucifer said "I will not serve."
It's that simple.