The Wheel: Punishment in Hell for Deadly Sin of Pride
Wednesday January 14, 2009
Prideful people, those guilty of committing the deadly sin of pride, are said to be punished in hell by be "broken on the wheel." It's not clear what this particular punishment has to do with attacking pride. Perhaps during medieval times being broken on the wheel was an especially humiliating punishment to have to endure. Otherwise, why not be punished by having people laugh at you and mock your abilities for all eternity?
Read Article: Punishment in Hell for the Deadly Sin of Pride is to be Broken on the Wheel
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This is a great article. I love the ridiculous manner in which the Christian Church has devised ways to scare the crap out of people to force them to conform to the Church’s ideals. Having lived with these retarded concepts most of my life I would like to offer how I view these so-called sins now.
Pride = For anyone to accomplish anything they have to believe that they can and the degree that they accomplish it is the degree of their own belief in themselves. The troubling thing about the Christian view on pride is that it creates a dangerous twist to self-belief. It allows the person to focus their accomplishments outside of themselves, relieving them of personal responsibility that becomes a mandate from an “exo-being”. This creates the even bigger problem than the imagined sin of pride; ARROGANCE and the rampant justification of every horrible manifestion of out of control insanity that arrogance encourages.
Envy = contrast to what we can but don’t have. For example if I am digging a hole for years with my hands and someone comes along beside me with a big handy shovel that gets the job done quicker and better, I should want to know how to get me one of those. All of the bad feeling that is associated with envy is just a distraction designed to keep us in our own imagined darkness. This also prevents progress and innovation and leads to living 2000 years in a romanticized past in the actual present. Sounds like a fundamental idea.
Gluttony = over consumption. This is just ridiculous. Consumption is about limits. Pushing the limits is how we expand our minds and sometimes our bellies, but mostly it is good for everybody.
Anger = is emotional protection from being violated. It is our emotional line that others are not allowed to cross. If we denied our anger we would all be doormats for those we put in authority over us.
Greed = is a falsehood, a lie and those that spread that lie are always the fist to violate it. Because it is a lie everyone who actively pursues greed are seen as evil even to themselves, because they are motivated and acting on a lie. The truth is there is plenty for everyone to have the lives they want with out sacrificing everyone they know to get it.
Sloth = my favorite of all because if you follow all of the ones that came before you have nothing left of yourself except apathy. Why do anything at all? Why think anything at all? Just let the church break you ,take you and make you into their version of an automaton.
Much in the same nature of one of the Christmas lies - Santa Claus - where we tell children to behave to get rewarded and if they break that command they are punished with a lump of coal which only serves to humiliate. Life, as much as religions in general and Christianity in particular would like us all to believe is just this simple, it fortunately for all of us does not work this way. Oh, and there is no hell.
It takes a twisted mind to think of twisted punishments for the afterlife.
They didn’t have to invent breaking on the wheel as a hellish punishment. People were quite willing to break alleged miscreants on the wheel during their eartly existence.
@Socrates:
I have to disagree with your statement about greed. What leads you to believe it is imaginary?