MesaZona blog viewers might be curious about why post this now?Just happened to engage with someone scouting locations downtown for a movie about "The Seven Deadly Sins" by a certain faith-based group. Admittedly, yours truly could not even remember what those so-called sins were and wondered why they selected downtown, with filming scheduled to start in June . . . something about promoting a pledge with role-playing?
Like that Unity Pledge promoted here in Mesa,mebbe?
As oftentimes happens, as shown in the accompanying GIS map-image, those with a tradition of faith have the largest amount of sin per capita while calling themselves "saints", Latter Day or not
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| Pieter Breugel The Elder |
A set of United States maps showing the counties that have the highest concentrations of sin, based on the "Seven Deadly Sins," has caused a stir . . . In each of the maps the southeast, an area often referred to as the "Bible Belt" for its tradition of faith, has the largest amount of sin per capita . . .
"We compiled those maps from the standpoint of geographic information science," Mitch Stimers, who worked on the study as a graduate student at Kansas State University in 2009, told The Christian Post in an interview on Friday.
Now a director of institutional research and instructor of geography and geosciences at Cloud County Community College, Stimers insisted - with your MesaZona blogger in total agreement - "we weren't attempting to interject any moral interpretation into them."
Source: Christian Post
What Are The Seven Deadly Sins?
[ according to http://www.deadlysins.com/ ]People have always been immoral, shiftless, and self-gratifying.
For ages, humankind struggled to find a conceptual system to operationalize their spiritual shortcomings.
Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God.
It has been called the sin from which all others arise.
Pride is also known as Vanity.
Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.
Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.
Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.
Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury.
It is also known as Wrath.
Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual.
It is also called Avarice or Covetousness.
Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.
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