# Which deadly sin is most likely to imperil your immortal soul? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067 "2008-10-15T18:22:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/41 "2008-10-18T03:59:07Z")
Are you kidding? From age 12 to 18 I was beating it like it owed me money. Once I learned how to get girls in bed that was more or less the purpose of my life. It’s likely not coincidence that I married the horniest girl I ever dated. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/42 "2008-10-18T04:04:43Z")
Sloth, for sure. You guys haven’t seen my house. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/43 "2008-10-18T09:59:59Z")
I’ll have a #7. (Pride) ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/44 "2008-10-18T10:30:28Z")
> [@Interrobang](#): > > Sloth: “failure to utilize one’s talents and gifts” Given that definition, Sloth. I’m proactive and not too lazy, but I regularly throw things and do poorly to make others look better. I can’t stand being in the spotlight and insult myself when someone compliments me because I feel like a jerk otherwise (I’ve had Mormons tell me I’m being too humble, it’s actually somewhat self-serving, considering it’s furthering my desire to be unnoticed). I’m especially prone to this on anything with rankings (i.e. online games with ladder matches), I’m actually somewhat good (not professional level of course, because I’m not practicing) but I don’t want anyone to feel bad they didn’t win so I “fail to utilize my talents” deliberately and throw the match and let their rank go up (I do this less with team games, but I still play somewhat poorly so the other members of my team look like gods compared to me; and this isn’t a rationalization, I can admit when I’m legitimately downright BAD at a game… like Supreme Commander, I suck at that). ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/45 "2008-10-18T14:35:15Z")
Sloth and Pride. I’m not sure which goes in which order. Sure, I feel as though I’m not living up to my potential, but doesn’t that show a puffed up sense of self-importance? ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/46 "2008-10-20T20:20:14Z")
Lust would be my downfall… ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/47 "2008-10-20T20:30:08Z")
Greed and pride, but I don’t really think they are sins in and of themselves. I agree, though, that many more people should be saying pride. Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/48 "2008-10-20T20:34:24Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville Not getting out and running errands or working in the yard or planning and cooking meals for the week on Shabbat is considered a virtue for us. [/QUOTE] Ah, but that wouldn’t be sloth, that would be leisure, which is a good thing. The opposite of sloth is leisure, to Catholics. 😃 Probably for me, acedia, which is related to sloth, or pride. Or wrath. Sort of a toss-up. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/49 "2008-10-21T01:28:08Z")
Lust, I wish. Sloth, in reality. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/50 "2008-10-21T16:30:10Z")
Mine, roughly in order: Sloth: “failure to utilize one’s talents and gifts” Pride: excessive love of self and a desire for importance Greed: excessive acquisition of wealth Gluttony: overindulgence to the point of waste Envy: wanting what someone else has, and wanting them not to have it Lust: sexual desire Wrath: hatred and anger (classic dark side of the Force) ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/51 "2008-10-21T17:20:36Z")
Gluttony (I’m a big fatass who overeats at almost every meal), followed by lust (I loves the porn, and lately my dick has been doing a lot of thinking for me,\*), followed by greed. \*I’m happily married, and have always been faithful to Mrs. Homie, and have no intention of cheating on her, but lately Little Homie has been drawing his eye towards a woman at work. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/52 "2008-10-21T18:18:13Z")
Sloth. Definitely sloth. In fact, I’m too damn lazy to bother with the other deadly sins. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067/53 "2008-10-21T18:37:22Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Are you kidding? > > **From age 12 to 18 I was beating it like it owed me money.** Once I learned how to get girls in bed that was more or less the purpose of my life. It’s likely not coincidence that I married the horniest girl I ever dated. Bolding mine. That is the funniest thing I have read in awhile. For me it’s sloth. Rocks call me lazy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-deadly-sin-is-most-likely-to-imperil-your-immortal-soul/468067.md?page=2)