The Horsemen 4 and The Sins, Deadly, 7

Deadly: Causing death; tending or liable to cause death; fatal.

I feel like taking a spin through the 7 Deadly Sins. God forbid I'd write about gratitude or happiness or any of that kind of crap.

I'd like to start by asking: why 7? Seems like an arbitrary number to me. I bet I could come up with a few more if I put my mind to it. I say stop at 5 or go all the way to 10. I'd accept 12; after all we have the 12 steps and the 12 commandments. Maybe this is all based around Snow White who had, I believe, 7 dwarfs, although this is probably not what Walt Disney had in mind. There are also 7 innings in a high school baseball game and seven colors in the rainbow if you believe that indigo and violet are different colors. I don't.

I'm going to assume that we are just scratching the surface with sins. I bet that there are a whole lot of minor sins out there. Deadly is deadly. I would think there are things you can do that are kind of bad, not fatal bad. Anger is deadly apparently; maybe you can be a little pissy or bitchy, not full blown angry, and stay alive. Seems reasonable on the surface.

Don't you wonder why no one has come up with the Seven Glorious Benefits? All this fascination with the black and the negative -- we're definitely a society which puts a lot of emphasis on the Dark Side. We don't tend to say do this and be happy, preferring warnings of the dire consequences of poor behavior. We come up with eternal flames.

During my Quiet Times I try to imagine the 4 Hideous Horsemen engaging in the 7 Deadly Sins.