The Seven Deadly Sins (album) also includes other songs by Weill & Brecht-like the "Alabama Song" and songs from "The Threepenny Opera", which Marianne Faithfull also performed live in 1992 at the Dublin Gate Theater, playing the role of the prostitute Jenny and interpreting the famous Pirate Jenny song. The Seven Deadly Sins (album) The Seven Deadly Sins is a studio recording of the Kurt Weill Opera of the same name by Marianne Faithfull, released in 1998. Marianne Faithfull had already performed "The Seven Deadly Sins" live at St Ann's in Brooklyn, but it was only after working with Dennis Russell Davies on "20th Century
Seven deadly sins of all sins, it has been deemed the devil's most prominent trait. C.S. Lewis writes, in "Mere Christianity", that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind." Pride is understood to sever the spirit from God, as well as His life-and-grace-giving Presence. One can be prideful for different reasons. Author Ichabod Spencer states