7 Deadly Sins
lust
Audio 48:30
Lust.
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By: Anne Dorval
1 min
While officially condemning it, the Church has always maintained a troubled relationship with sexuality, to the point of making lust a fixation.
For too long, the clergy has reprimanded the lesser forms of sensuality, and promised hell to all who engage in sexual practices that deviate from the sacrosanct framework of marriage.
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Already in the Middle Ages, Thomas Aquinas viewed carnal pleasure with a dim view.
For him, lust “darkens and dissolves the mind”.
This is perhaps what explains why the Catholic religion puts on the same footing of equality: adultery, homosexuality, onanism, rape, pedophilia, incest and zoophilia.
No offense to the Fathers of the Church, lust is of the 7 deadly sins, the one that has caused the most ink to flow, and devoured the most cinematographic film.
We can also affirm, without great risk of being mistaken, that it is the oldest sin in the world.
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