Eight Deadliest Sins

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The eight most deadliest sins are lust, pride, envy, anger, wrath, gluttony, sloth, and dishonor. In the 1400’s, dishonor in some cultures was so bad it was counted as a sin and the most drastic way to gain your honor back was to commit suicide. The eighth deadliest sin is dishonor which thus means without honor. Examples of dishonor is like betraying your brothers for gold, or being like a coward and killing your opponents with a poison inside of a glass instead of killing them face to face.
Dishonor can be a form of many different sins such as if you raped a young defenseless virgin you can be dishonored by many people even by love ones. Dishonor is not just by raping virgins it can also be by killing your family just to gain more of something you desire. Dishonor is a sin because of the things a person can do to hurt family, their country, or even the world by doing a certain act of evil. Stealing money or killing
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Being honored is a good character trait to have because you can cause more good than harm to others and yourself. Morals that people can learn from not being dishonored is by how others will appreciate the things you do and will have more trust in the things you say. By being dishonored no one will ever want to have anything to do with you or will ever want you to be apart of their family and friends.
Dishonor can be the same as lust, pride, greed, and or even anger. If two brothers kill another brother over money they would be dishonored because of their greed for more money to obtain. If a person raped a women he would also be dishonored by committing lust for a women he is not married too. Dishonor is similar to all the seven sins is because any of the seven deadliest sins will cause you to be dishonored by everyone and being dishonored will also cause you to do other sins as well as any of the seven deadliest

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