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No Vested Interest

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10. Well. there are seven deadly sins; we didn't know that at age 6.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 21, 2021, 02:11 AM

Dec 2021

The greatest of the seven deadlies is pride.
Lust, which is illicit sex, is number three.
Likely learned a little (very little) about that around grade 6 or 7.

So yeah, temptation is general - or all variety- of evil.

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