Ep 708 To Hell with Envy

Feeling pretty good about yourself? Or kind of hungry? Or miffed  about the guy who cut you off in traffic? Careful, you may be slipping  into one of the seven deadly sins. Affectionately referred to as PAGGLES, the seven deadly sins we know  and love are pride, anger, greed, gluttony, lust, envy and sloth. The  modern concept of the seven deadly sins is most often attributed to Pope  Gregory I, who in 400 A.D. refined lists of “evil thoughts” from  ancient Sumerian, Greek and Egyptian cultures into seven particularly  egregious moral errors. He used these to help guide Christians away from  a hell-bound afterlife. Hell is thought to hold specific punishments for those who commit one  — or many (plenty of overachievers out there) — of the seven deadly  sins. We’re not sure how these “traditional” punishments came to be,  since most of them don’t seem that closely related to the sin itself. Just so you know what you’re potentially getting yourself into with  your favorite vices, we’ve put together a brief review of each sin and  what type of welcome you can expect in the afterlife if you choose to  indulge.