Re: Would the life be diff if the 7 deadly sins did not exist?
^ lets start a new religion where these are not sins but good deeds which would be rewarded hereafter. People would find excuses not to do these then and we will all have a better life.
Thats not the way it works.
Sex is a scarce 'resource'. Everyone wants it..not everyone can get it as much as they want; however they want.
Religions made sex a 'sin' to rationalize this scarcity. So people have a more honorable justification for why they aren't indulging in it.
You want to know the biggest lie religions tell us? - "To sin is the easiest thing to do while virtue is a hard path"
OR "gunah karna sab say asaan kaam hota hai"
The truth is that *gunah karna itna asaan nahi hota ya har ek ke liye mumkin nahi hota. *To get what you (sinfully) desire is the hardest thing in life.
If sex was abundantly available to all in an egalitarian way it wouldn't have been declared a sin in the first place.
Re: Would the life be diff if the 7 deadly sins did not exist?
Those who are overtaken by 'lust' usually don't have the opportunities to 'fulfill their need'.
I'm going by your distinction between lust and sexual need, which is hardly universal.
Peace uzair1
My definition included the phrase "or consciously disbanded" - why did you not include that? My point being that if we dwell on sex we are being lustful ... if we allow a sexual urge to surface when we come to our wives/husbands controlling it ... then this is not lust - this is fitrah.
Re: Would the life be diff if the 7 deadly sins did not exist?
Thats not the way it works.
Sex is a scarce 'resource'. Everyone wants it..not everyone can get it as much as they want; however they want.
Religions made sex a 'sin' to rationalize this scarcity. So people have a more honorable justification for why they aren't indulging in it.
You want to know the biggest lie religions tell us? - "To sin is the easiest thing to do while virtue is a hard path"
OR "gunah karna sab say asaan kaam hota hai"
The truth is that *gunah karna itna asaan nahi hota ya har ek ke liye mumkin nahi hota. *To get what you (sinfully) desire is the hardest thing in life.
If sex was abundantly available to all in an egalitarian way it wouldn't have been declared a sin in the first place.
I disagree ... sin is rooted in self-absorption whereas virtue is rooted in self-struggle. Trying to find someone to have sex with in a nightclub may appear to be difficult physically but it is a condition that results from a person not restraining desire - which is easy ... The outcome of his uncontrolled condition may or may not result in what he sets out to achieve. If he does not manage to "score" then he has not sinned in the shari'ah sense, but he has still wronged his soul and he has strayed further from the path of virtue. If he did get it on then he sinned in the shar'ah sense as well in the spiritual sense. Only when he strives to overcome his urges through a sense of greater purpose then that is called virtue. Not getting sex when he set out for it is a result of the Mercy of God - that he was protected from the sin he intended to do.
Re: Would the life be diff if the 7 deadly sins did not exist?
Peace Shamraz
So really you are not talking about the sins ... you are talking about other things these sins lie on their axis/scale of ... these are extremes in their own axes and can in themselves never be virtuous.
I don't look at them as sins, but as a spectrum. On the 1 end you have total vice and other end you a have total virtue, and most of everything we do falls somewhere between the 2 extremes. Having said that, why do most people tend to gravitate more toward vice then virtue?