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The Seven Deadly Sins (The Boar's Sin of Gluttony)


Yes, the symbol of Gluttony is a pig, but what I can never reconcile is why a slim beautiful lady, with exceptional alchemy, was made the Boar’s sin of Gluttony. I just don’t get it Nanatsu no Taizai!

To properly understand this sin, we must know that the Glutton is not one for just the size of what he eats, it’s for his avarice and his lust for the pleasure he derives from these things that are meant for the goodness of his body. Gluttony applies to food, alcoholic spirits and beverages. All these things should be taken in moderation (although I must argue that moderation varies with individuals). What we must be cautious about is that we are not given into these things.

The dangers of this vice to the body and soul outweighs the pleasure (O, I assure you some sins are very pleasurable). When we eat our fill and drink our fill we automatically open another appetite with a very strong desire to attain its fill too. Gluttony paves way to Lust and exposes the soul to fornication and other forms of debauchery. In ancient times, the Romans were a popular lot for their exotic banquets and licentious parties. The party behavior was easy. Eat your fill, drink your fill and have your fill of every licentious activity you can find! Another popular behavior was that some folks would eat at this banquets till they are stuffed, go to the corner to stimulate their gag reflex with their fingers, puke till they have emptied their bowels, then they head back to start another round of eating, drinking and orgies. They ate for the pleasure of eating. This act isn’t so strange in our society today. Yes! All of una wen dey carry Andrews Liver Salt waka go party, una sef follow!

The only remedy to this vice is to be filled with the Spirit (Eph. V:18) and that entails a lot of mortification (depriving the carnal desires of the flesh), a lot of prayer and good fasting which I find to be a very helpful and fulfilling. Discipline is key in my life as a Christian because although all things are lawful for me, not all things are profitable. And though all things are lawful for me, I will not be mastered by anything. Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them (1 Cor VI:12-13).

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