Seven Deadly Sins Today Analysis

The Seven Deadly Sins Today, written by Henry Fairlie, expressed each sin and how it is manifested in our society. One of the seven deadly sin is avarice which means, extreme greed for wealth or material gain. This entire chapter gives examples of how people act of avarice and how it envelopes our being. One example that most people can imagine would be Scrooge and how his greed took over his entire life and put him in misery. Fairlie continues and explains how possession will possess the owner, instead of the owner possessing the possessions. Through the chapter there are many instances that can be connected with how our society is engraved with avarice and how high it is among the seven deadly sins. Fairlie describes avarice in numerous …show more content…
Fairlie expresses his concern with how a man who evolves himself around greed, turns himself away from doing what is right which is helping others. A man who is representing avarice, doesn’t feel that they have time or energy to help others because all his energy is going towards his possessions. A way for man to be alerted of this sin, is to realize what you think about more. If a man is thinking about only receiving and getting money or objects, then they are already on the path of avarice and have a hard time helping others. If they are still willing to help other and find their mind on others things beside their objects and money they are still on the right path. All in all, we need to go back to what the bible says and connect with our morals and values. In our society, everyone is always saying that people need to make the most money and buy the nicest things. This is not true. Some people need to take a step back and look at how sinful they are being. One should ask themselves, are they taking the job to simply make a lot of money or are they doing it because it makes them happy? This is a problem in our society today and needs to be changed. Due to avarice, people are trying to get jobs that pay a lot of money instead of doing some more meaningful job, for example teaching, they do not get paid as highly as some business professionals, but they are giving back to children. I think that with people reading this chapter it will help them realize that they should make morally sound decisions and realize that avarice is a major sin. It can lead people to a life they would not want to