The Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times view the "Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Times" properly requires that you walk around it and view each of the sections, which are artfully integrated. The center is a nocturnal eye with the inscriptions "The Seven Deadly Sins" on one side, and "The Eye of Gaia Sees All" on the other. The sections are described below after a short, general definition from Princeton's WordNet. Self-effacement is defined as withdrawing into the background, making yourself inconspicuous. The section shows three activities in one room: Celibacy is defined as either abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) or being in
Seven deadly sins Western tradition's spiritual pietas (or Catholic devotions), as follows: These "evil thoughts" can be categorized into three types: In AD 590 Pope Gregory I revised this list to form the more common list. Gregory combined "tristitia" with "acedia", and "vanagloria" with "superbia", and added "envy," in Latin, "invidia". Gregory's list became the standard list of sins. Thomas Aquinas uses and defends Gregory's list in his "Summa Theologica" although he calls them the "capital sins" because they are the head and form of all the others. The Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church, and Methodist Church, among other Christian denominations, continue to retain