Seven deadly sins Seven deadly sins The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices within Christian teachings. Behaviours or habits are classified under this category if they directly give birth to other immoralities. According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth, which are also contrary to the seven virtues. These sins are often thought to be abuses or excessive versions of one's natural faculties or passions (for example, gluttony abuses one's desire to eat). This classification originated with the desert fathers, especially Evagrius Ponticus,
Seven deadly sins early life and rise to political power. The second, "Nemesis", gives details of Hitler's role in the Second World War, and concludes with his fall and suicide in 1945. Much of the 10th and part of 11th chapter of the Book of Sirach discusses and advises about pride, hubris, and who is rationally worthy of honor. It goes: Jacob Bidermann's medieval miracle play, "Cenodoxus", pride is the deadliest of all the sins and leads directly to the damnation of the titulary famed Parisian doctor. In Dante's "Divine Comedy", the penitents are burdened with stone slabs on their necks to keep