Seven Social Sins Seven Social Sins Seven Social Sins is a list that was first uttered in a sermon delivered in Westminster Abbey on March 20, 1925 by an Anglican priest named Frederick Lewis Donaldson. He originally referred to it as the "7 Deadly Social Evils". It is a common misconception that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the origin of this list as he published the same list in his weekly newspaper "Young India" on October 22, 1925. Later he gave this same list to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper on their final day together shortly before his assassination.
Seven deadly sins by laziness, but by a state of depression that caused spiritual detachment. Vainglory (Latin, ) is unjustified boasting. Pope Gregory viewed it as a form of pride, so he folded "vainglory" into pride for his listing of sins. According to Thomas Aquinas, it is the progenitor of envy. The Latin term "gloria" roughly means "boasting", although its English cognate – "glory" – has come to have an exclusively positive meaning; historically, the term "vain" roughly meant "futile" (a meaning retained in the modern expression "in vain"), but by the 14th century had come to have the strong narcissistic undertones, that