{"id":724314,"date":"2022-06-30T08:53:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T08:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=247709"},"modified":"2022-06-30T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T08:53:38","slug":"the-seven-deadly-sins-alive-well-in-the-u-s-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/30\/the-seven-deadly-sins-alive-well-in-the-u-s-of-a\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Deadly Sins: Alive &amp; Well in the U.S. of A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was the last sin you committed? The Bible describes \u201csin\u201d as\u00a0transgression of the law of God\u00a0(1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God\u00a0(Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18). In the year 590, Pope Gregory the Great specified the seven deadly sins: pride \u2013 an excessive belief in one&#8217;s own abilities; envy \u2013 excessive jealousy for others&#8217; traits,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/30\/the-seven-deadly-sins-alive-well-in-the-u-s-of-a\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/30\/the-seven-deadly-sins-alive-well-in-the-u-s-of-a\/\">The Seven Deadly Sins: Alive &#038; Well in the U.S. of A<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/06\/30\/the-seven-deadly-sins-alive-well-in-the-u-s-of-a\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was the last sin you committed? The Bible describes \u201csin\u201d as\u00a0transgression of the law of God\u00a0(1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God\u00a0(Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18). In the year 590, Pope Gregory the Great specified the seven deadly sins: pride \u2013 an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725141,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724314\/revisions\/725141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}