Talk:Sloth (deadly sin)

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animosity

In the Catholicism section, "animosity towards God" seems to be used in a positive sense, as in being a desirable attribute. "Animosity" means anger or enmity, which I do not believe a good Catholic would direct at God.

Is this a misquote or misunderstand?

Perhaps we need a verb here e.g. "show animosity towards God". HiTechHiTouch (talk) 20:50, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Dreamers?

"He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap." Ecclesiastes 11:4

I don't think this is about "dreamers" as it is said in this article:

"The sluggard (lazy person) will share this fate with the talkative persons, with dreamers that ″watch the wind″ or ″regard the clouds″"

I think it's about people who are overly analytical, who worry too much.

46.239.240.219 (talk) 10:20, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

I agree. Notdede (talk) 02:08, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

For rapacious people cluster sound the slothful, and create A toxic broth to keep those that are lazy down. I witnessed this in 2018 Notdede (talk) 02:12, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

@46.239.240.219 read matthew, god gave sign about end of times. please seek quran and hadith also sutra god bless QuaMbear (talk) 10:11, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Depression

• On the History chanel there was a series on the seven deadly sins, listing Depression as sloth.
• Suicide is often considerd a sin in the Christion tradition.

--Gjeremy (talk) 17:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

@Gjeremy yes i think in all tradition suicidal is a big sin, major sin, all the problem we had we must re take and recalculate also in our mind, so our mind can handle also our body and soul became much more reliable. read maleacchi also john, and quran.. our brother in god, moslem mean is peacefull QuaMbear (talk) 10:10, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

Aquinas

St. Thomas Aquinas had a lot to say on this (his understanding of Acedia is very distant from our modern understanding of Sloth as Laziness), anyone knowledgeable enough to fill the gap?

Harvey Cox

The American theologian Harvey Cox wrote an essay, "On Not Leaving It To the Snake" on how the sin of Adam and Eve can be interpreted as sloth. Cox' argument is that in the myth of the Garden of Eden, Eve let the serpent talk her into eating the fruit, and Adam let Eve talk him into eating. Neither of them took repsonsibility for their moral choice, each of them passing the decision to another. In this interpretation, sloth is in some respects is worse than pride. Pride, at least, is an active sin. Sloth is passive -- letting the snake make the moral decision. Would something like this be worth adding to the article? Jhobson1 (talk) 15:00, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

NPOV

ok, this DEFINITELY has some pov issues. I mean, encyclopedia's are supposed to be objective, and you guys are all like 'video games aren't worthy of your time and are thus slothful' as an example. Well, someone else might think that video games are a worthy thing to do. Like, what about like....reviewing them, or something?

I dunno, I'm just saying this thing has some pov isssues and is not objectiiiiiiiiive. D:

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'Catholic' and 'Christian' are not synonyms. 'Catholic' refers either to a church (organization and history) or cult (worship and practice). The religion is often called 'Christianity.' A reference to Seven deadly sins might be appropriate. This sin is often spelled accidia. Which is the more correct Latin? Might some further reading draw together some links to this entry? User:Wetman

What language?

The only translation I can get for:

  "preguiça de ir buscar bolachas à pasta que está on the floor"

is Portuguese:

  "laziness to go to search big cookies to the folder that is on the floor"

and this doesn't make much sense to me.

"preguiça de ir buscar bolachas à pasta que está on the floor"

=

"laziness to get the cookies from the bag that's on the floor"

Entropy?

Entropy has to do with the loss of usable energy; was this supposed to be atrophy, instead? (atrophy, to waste away from disuse) User:rubah —Preceding undated comment was added at 03:06, 6 February 2009 (UTC).

Entropy is the Greek word for "transform", and is understood today exclusively for its meaning in physics. I cannot think of how this can be related to the definition of sloth. 222.153.230.118 (talk) 03:36, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

This page is rather badly written

I'm rather new at this talk stuff but I feel the need to make a comment. This page is really poorly written. Aside from the Bible verses rendered in links it seems to assume the truthiness of Christianity. I don't want to hazzard an edit myself, being a noob, but I think it's worth looking at.Stellar Duck (talk) 00:54, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

WP:SOFIXIT. LobStoR (talk) 19:05, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. The references to the Bible should be references made by notable persons who have linked them specifically to sloth. The references right now may seem rather randomly chosen, and have only a weak link to sloth. Narssarssuaq (talk) 14:41, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Liable to assume the truth of Christianity given that it's discussing a topic in Christian theology. If you want to analyse socio-political ideas of sloth across multiple cultures, a somewhat broader page might be in order, with a link to this one. 62.196.17.197 (talk) 14:57, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Sloth (mental state)

These appear to be the same concept. Suggesting a merge of the stub (now Sloth (mental state)) into the larger (Sloth (deadly sin)); perhaps a move afterwards to Sloth (mental state) would be OK. Closeapple (talk) 11:21, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Support. Who will perform the merger? Lbertolotti (talk) 15:57, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

 Done McLerristarr | Mclay1 14:07, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

This painting and the parable it's based on have nothing to do with sloth. The workers (I like how "lazy peasants" is quoted, where did that come from?) are sleeping after sowing the field, and their enemy is sowing tares (vetch). Unless a suitable reference can be found I move this be removed. AnyyVen (talk) 00:22, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

Support, it seems unrelated. Ign christian (talk) 07:48, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

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sloth or pride ?

sorry for interrupt, the main characteristic is not sloth i think "Sloth ignores the seven gifts of grace given by the Holy Ghost (wisdom, understanding, counsel, knowledge, piety, fortitude, and fear of the Lord); such disregard slows spiritual progress towards life—to neglect manifold duties of charity towards the neighbour, and animosity towards God." but pride, you have a great pace luck and throne but you boasting for other's sin etc make you doesn't deserve and make you have 8 sin mouth ... or word ... just my opinion afaik QuaMbear (talk) 10:07, 11 June 2022 (UTC)