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C.S. Lewis To Arthur Greeves: On the Seven Deadly Sins

10 February 1930 When I said that your besetting sin was Indolence and mine Pride I was thinking of the old classification of the seven deadly sins: They are Gula (Gluttony), Luxuria(Unchastity), Accidia (Indolence), Ira (Anger), Superbia (Pride), Invidia (Envy), Avaritia(Avarice). Accidia, which is sometimes called Tristitia (despondence) is the kind of indolence which comes from indifference to the good—the mood in which though it tries to play on us […]

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Eternal Paradise or Hell? How and Why Both Choices are Freely Made

“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned

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Cain, Marxism, Leftism, and America’s ruling class of ‘superior’ humans. The dragon they have in common.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. We

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The Evil Eye of Envy: Why Being White is Offensive to Some People

Coca Cola has forced employees to take a mandatory course on LinkedIn to learn how to be “less white.” The course suggests that to be white is to be arrogant, defensive, ignorant, and oppressive. It also claims that in the West, white children are socialized “to feel that they are inherently superior,” and that “one-time

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