The synodal translation of the Old Testament contains a list of God's commandments - there are 10. There are two less deadly sins. Here they are: pride, vanity, anger, despondency, sadness, adultery, lust, gluttony. In some cases, the concept of sadness and despondency is combined into a single whole, although these are somewhat different concepts.
Mortal sins are called so because the lack of will and desire to fight them leads to spiritual death.
As a rule, their list at the beginning of any prayer book begins with pride or pride, which sometimes they try to distinguish. Indeed, the expressions “we are proud of our country” or “proudly flies the flag of our native homeland on the mast ...”, etc., like any sin, pride arises from the feelings characteristic of most people, called virtues. There is even a very expressive and figurative comparison of such emotions with a dog, which is good when it guards the house, and becomes harmful if it bites everyone in a row or acts outrageously in the house. Deadly sins are interconnected. A person who believes that his homeland is beautiful, and happy with the fact that he lives on his native land, should not at the same time consider all foreigners as second-class people, with whom he has the right to push. Otherwise, he will fall into the sin of pride, and then of unrighteous anger, that is, malice. An example of such an attitude to the world is the actions of the leadership of Nazi Germany, who considered himself entitled to humiliate and exterminate the "racially inferior" peoples.
Pride is the sister of vanity
Other deadly sins are also separated from righteous deeds by a fine line. The need for food, laid down by human nature itself, sometimes becomes a hypertrophied desire to eat as many of the most sophisticated foods as possible and develops into gluttony.
A completely natural instinct of reproduction becomes an occasion for promiscuity (multiple sexual relations without feeling, only out of lust).
The sadness experienced by the loss of loved ones can cause a complete loss of interest in life.
Frugality and frugality are sometimes transformed into stinginess, because greed is characteristic of greedy people.
There are other “cross-links” with which mortal sins feed one another. For example, a glutton quickly enough begins to feel desire in other pleasures and becomes an adulterer. The proud man does not tolerate objections and usually reacts to any criticism against him with outbursts of anger. Excessive sadness develops into despondency. Love of money is often the result of vanity and the desire to prove to others their superiority and demonstrate wealth and luxury.
An interesting approach to this problem is the famous philosopher and biologist Konrad Lorenz. In his book The Eight Deadly Sins of Civilized Humanity, an Austrian scientist explores theosophical concepts from a rational point of view, bringing the social and scientific base under the motivation of human actions and establishing parallels with animal behavior. In his opinion, the Christian concepts of good and evil, at first glance abstract and abstract, have deep rational roots containing recommendations, the observance of which is necessary for the survival of all mankind.