Written in response to the Daily Post’s Daily Prompt:
Remember the seven cardinal sins? You’re given the serious task of adding a new one to the list — another trait or behavior you find particularly unacceptable, for whatever reason. What’s sin #8 for you? Why?
First students, let’s review those pesky seven deadly sins:
My personal favorite–lust,
followed in order of the sins
to which I’ve succumbed
in order of frequency
from greatest to least:
sloth, (yes, i’m wicked lazy)
pride, (and darned proud of it,)
gluttony (i’ll toast again to that!)
with just a soupçon of
greed, wrath, and envy,
to make me truly interesting.
I nominate intolerance
to take its rightful
place among these
numbered transgressions.
Divisive and shaming,
a barrier to peace;
bigotry makes no
loving concessions.
Peace, people.
This poem I really like!
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Thank you! It didn’t start out as a poem–sometimes those accidental ones are my favorites.
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Intolerance is a great candidate for an eighth cardinal sin. After that, we should have as next in the sequence, arithmetical incompetence as the eleventh cardinal sin.
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Perhaps we should rename them ordinal sins. I can feel a whole blog post bubbling up around that….
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I would say that it sounds like a good idea to me, but I’m afraid of accusations that I’m encouraging pride.
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Encouraging one of the ordinal sins!
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I wonder how many ordinal sins there are? If we could get it up to a 365th sin, there’d be one for every day of the year. We’d have to come up with a new one for leap years, though.
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I like the way you think. We could just make Feb. 29 a sin free zone.
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That’s a good idea. It’s only once every four years, so everybody should be able to manage at least that much virtue.
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Yup, I can’t tolerate intolerance. Makes me just as bad, I suppose.
But wilful ignorance, while judging freely, has got to rank somwhere in that list. Quite possibly, at the top.
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Agreed!
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Intolerance is a little sis of Ignorance. There are more siblings. Most of people are intolerant, and often they have no clue that they are, because, you know, the truth is theirs 😉
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