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Before you run off because of the name, this search engine is not related to any
religious sects to include any of the occult. It's just a theme to categorize several areas on the internet.
Below we've categorized our website to describe what we're about
and why advertising with us would be good for you.
Why Sins For A Search Engine?
Because I've
never seen anybody use this idea before. I'm not trying to bring
religion into anything really, I just think it's an interesting
concept to use sins as categories for searching. After-all, you
see a lot of corruption within government, a lot of "sinful"
acts and desires within the world and so that goes back to the
old phrase "If you can't beat them. Join them." So then I began
thinking along the lines of sins. A lot of people look up porn,
and that is very lustful, would you agree? Others play online
gambling which is a form of greed. Things just began coming
together and so I decided to use that and put everything
together into a search engine. Find what your pleasure is by
looking it up under one of seven categories (the 7 deadly sins).
Now as you may currently see on this search engine I haven't set
up the categories yet, but in time, I'm hoping that this search
engine will grow and the entire site will also evolve into
something better.
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Which Is Your Favorite
Sin?
Lust:
-Lust (or lechery) is usually thought of
as involving obsessive or excessive thoughts or desires of a
sexual
nature. Giving in to lusts can lead to sexual or sociological
compulsions and/or transgressions including (but obviously not
limited to)
sexual addiction,
fornication,
adultery,
bestiality,
rape, and
incest.[citations
needed]
Dante's criterion was "excessive love of others," which
therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary. In "Purgatorio",
the penitent walks within flames to purge himself of
lustful/sexual thoughts and feelings. (taken from
Wikipedia)
Greed:
-Greed (or avarice, covetousness)
is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of excess. However, greed (as
seen by the church) is applied to the acquisition of
wealth in
particular. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that greed was "a sin
against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns
things eternal for the sake of temporal things." In Dante's
Purgatory, the penitents were bound and laid face down on the
ground for having concentrated too much on earthly thoughts.
"Avarice" is more of a blanket term that can describe many other
examples of greedy behavior. These include disloyalty,
deliberate
betrayal,
or
treason,[citations
needed]
especially for personal gain, for example through
bribery .
Scavenging[citation
needed]
and
hoarding
of materials or objects,
theft and
robbery,
especially by means of
violence,
trickery,
or
manipulation
of
authority
are all actions that may be inspired by greed. Such misdeeds can
include
simony,
where one profits from soliciting goods within the actual
confines of a church. (taken from
Wikipedia)
Envy:
-Like greed, envy may be
characterized by an insatiable desire; they differ, however, for
two main reasons. First, greed is largely associated with
material goods, whereas envy may apply more generally. Second,
those who commit the sin of envy resent that another person has
something they perceive themselves as lacking, and wish the
other person to be deprived of it. Dante defined this as "love
of one's own good perverted to a desire to deprive other men of
theirs." In Dante's Purgatory, the punishment for the envious is
to have their eyes sewn shut with wire, because they have gained
sinful pleasure from seeing others brought low. Aquinas
described envy as "sorrow for another's good". (taken from
Wikipedia)
Gluttony:
-Derived from the Latin
gluttire, meaning to gulp down or swallow, gluttony
is the over-indulgence and
over-consumption
of anything to the point of waste. In the Christian religions,
it is considered a sin because of the excessive desire for food,
or its withholding from the needy.[3]
(taken from
Wikipedia)
Depending on the
culture, it can be seen as either a vice or a sign of status.
Where food is relatively scarce, being able to eat well might be
something to take pride in (although this can also result in a
moral backlash when confronted with the reality of those less
fortunate). Where food is routinely plentiful, it may be
considered a sign of self control to resist the temptation to
over-indulge. (taken from
Wikipedia)
Medieval church leaders (e.g.,
Thomas Aquinas)
took a more expansive view of gluttony,[3]
arguing that it could also include an obsessive anticipation of
meals, and the constant eating of delicacies and excessively
costly foods.[4]
Aquinas went so far as to prepare a list of six ways to commit
gluttony, including:
-
Praepropere
- eating too soon.
-
Laute -
eating too expensively (washedly).
-
Nimis -
eating too much.
-
Ardenter
- eating too eagerly (burningly).
-
Studiose
- eating too daintily (keenly).
-
Forente
- eating wildly (boringly).
Sloth:
-More than
other sins, the definition of sloth has changed
considerably since its original inclusion among the seven deadly
sins. In fact it was first called the sin of sadness or
despair. It had been in the early years of Christianity
characterized by what modern writers would now describe as
melancholy: apathy, depression, and joylessness — the last being
viewed as being a refusal to enjoy the goodness of God and the
world God created. Originally, its place was fulfilled by two
other aspects, acedia and sadness. The former described a
spiritual apathy that affected the faithful by discouraging them
from their religious work. Sadness (tristitia in Latin)
described a feeling of dissatisfaction or discontent, which
caused unhappiness with one's current situation. When Thomas
Aquinas selected acedia for his list, he described it as
an "uneasiness of the mind", being a progenitor for lesser sins
such as restlessness and instability. Dante refined this
definition further, describing sloth as being the "failure to
love God with all one's heart, all one's mind and all one's
soul." He also described it as the middle sin, and as such was
the only sin characterised by an absence or insufficiency of
love. In his "Purgatorio", the slothful penitents were made to
run continuously at top speed.
The modern view
of the vice, as highlighted by its contrary virtue of zeal or
diligence, is that it represents the failure to utilize one's
talents and gifts. For example, a student who does not work
beyond what is required (and thus fails to achieve his or her
full potential) could be labeled slothful.
Current
interpretations are therefore much less stringent and
comprehensive than they were in medieval times, and portray
sloth as being more simply a sin of laziness or indifference, of
an unwillingness to act, an unwillingness to care (rather than a
failure to love God and his works). For this reason sloth is now
often seen as being considerably less serious than the other
sins, more a sin of omission than of commission.
The
sloth, a
South American
mammal,
was named after this sin by Roman Catholic explorers.
(taken from
Wikipedia)
Pride:
-In almost every list pride
(or hubris or "vanity") is considered the original
and most serious of the seven deadly sins, and indeed the
ultimate source from which the others arise. It is identified as
a desire to be more important or attractive than others, failing
to give compliments to others though they may be deserving of
them,[citation
needed]
and excessive love of self (especially holding self out of
proper position toward God). Dante's definition was "love of
self perverted to hatred and contempt for one's neighbor." In
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 perhaps the
best-known example, the story of
Lucifer,
pride (his desire to compete with God) was what caused his fall
from Heaven, and his resultant transformation into
Satan.
Vanity and
narcissism
are prime examples of this sin. In Dante's Divine Comedy,
the penitent were forced to walk with stone slabs bearing down
on their backs in order to induce feelings of humility. (taken
from
Wikipedia)
Wrath:
-Wrath (or anger
or "Rage") may be described as inordinate and uncontrolled
feelings of hatred and anger. These feelings can manifest as
vehement
denial of
the
truth,
both to others and in the form of
self-denial,
impatience
with the procedure of law, and the desire to seek revenge
outside of the workings of the justice system (such as engaging
in
vigilantism)[citations
needed]
and generally wishing to do evil or harm to others. The
transgressions borne of vengeance are among the most serious,
including
murder,
assault,
and in extreme cases,
genocide.
Wrath is the only sin not necessarily associated with
selfishness or self-interest (although one can of course be
wrathful for selfish reasons, such as jealousy, closely related
to the sin of envy). Dante described vengeance as "love of
justice
perverted to
revenge
and
spite".
In its original form, the sin of wrath also encompassed anger
pointed internally rather than externally. Thus
suicide
was deemed as the ultimate, albeit tragic, expression of wrath
directed inwardly, a final rejection of God's gifts. (taken from
Wikipedia)
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