David Bird
09-02-05, 07:16 AM
Public want some new deadly sins
From correspondents in London
February 08, 2005
THE Seven Deadly Sins - anger, gluttony, sloth, envy, pride, lust and greed - are out of date and should include cruelty, adultery and bigotry, the results of an opinion poll suggest.
Greed is the only one of the seven that should remain a sin in today's Britain, according to the poll by the MORI organisation for BBC television's Heaven and Earth programme.
Cruelty was ranked the worst sin by 39 percent of respondents, followed by adultery (11 percent), bigotry (eight percent), dishonesty (seven percent), hypocrisy (six percent), greed (six percent) and selfishness (five percent).
"Attitudes towards sin have changed. We're less concerned with the seven deadly sins and more concerned with actions that hurt others," said Ross Kelly, presenter of Heaven and Earth, a religion and ethics programme.
Of the 1001 adults interviewed, only nine percent said they had not committed any of the sins.
Seventy-nine percent said they were guilty of anger - while 41 percent of men and 26 percent of women said lust was the sin they "most enjoy committing".
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12184859-13762,00.html)
From correspondents in London
February 08, 2005
THE Seven Deadly Sins - anger, gluttony, sloth, envy, pride, lust and greed - are out of date and should include cruelty, adultery and bigotry, the results of an opinion poll suggest.
Greed is the only one of the seven that should remain a sin in today's Britain, according to the poll by the MORI organisation for BBC television's Heaven and Earth programme.
Cruelty was ranked the worst sin by 39 percent of respondents, followed by adultery (11 percent), bigotry (eight percent), dishonesty (seven percent), hypocrisy (six percent), greed (six percent) and selfishness (five percent).
"Attitudes towards sin have changed. We're less concerned with the seven deadly sins and more concerned with actions that hurt others," said Ross Kelly, presenter of Heaven and Earth, a religion and ethics programme.
Of the 1001 adults interviewed, only nine percent said they had not committed any of the sins.
Seventy-nine percent said they were guilty of anger - while 41 percent of men and 26 percent of women said lust was the sin they "most enjoy committing".
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12184859-13762,00.html)