the.com/seven deadly sins

Medieval HR's attempt to flowchart why humans ruin everything.

means The traditional Christian catalogue of seven core vices — pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth — believed to be the root of all other sin.

from The list wasn't handed down from scripture in this exact form; it developed gradually, with roots in the thinking of early Christian monks (notably Evagrius Ponticus, who listed eight 'evil thoughts' to watch for during desert solitude). Pope Gregory the Great later condensed and reshaped this into the seven we know, around the late 6th century, partly by merging vainglory into pride and dropping sadness into sloth. The list stuck because it was teachable — a tidy checklist for confession and moral instruction — and it got a huge popularity boost centuries later from Dante's 'Purgatorio,' which gave each sin its own terrace and punishment.

not biblical
never listed together anywhere in scripture
inventor
pope gregory i formalized the list in 590 AD
original sin ranked
pride, not lust, topped the list
opposite list exists
seven heavenly virtues were invented to counter them
the.com · every word