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Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins in Catholic teachings. It is the most difficult sin to define and credit as sin, since it refers to an assortment of ideas, dating from antiquity and including mental, spiritual, pathological, and conditional states. [ 1 ]
Belphegor is the name one of the heretical gods, more specifically that of yellow luxin and sloth, in the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks. The long-running German dime novel and audio drama series John Sinclair featured Belphégor as a recurring villain.
Bushyasta (Avesta, būšyāsta, būšiiąstā) is the Zoroastrian demon of sloth.Her stock epithet is "the long-handed". In scripture as well as in later tradition, Bushyasta (Middle Persian: Bushasp) is the hypostasis of laziness and idleness.
Sloth refers to many related ideas, dating from antiquity and including mental, spiritual, pathological, and physical states. [29] It may be defined as absence of interest or habitual disinclination to exertion. [30] In his Summa Theologica, Saint Thomas Aquinas defined sloth as "sorrow about spiritual good". [28] The scope of sloth is wide. [29]
The fourth is called Abaddon, the sloth[ful] be his retinue The fifth is Mammon and has with him the avarice [avaricious] and also fittingly, a foul sin, covetousness, is with his company of subjects The sixth is called Belphegor, that is the god of gluttons The seventh is Asmodeus, that leads with him the lecherous
Symeou, who conducted a recent study on sloths, says these creatures have the slowest metabolic rate of any land mammal and therefore digest their food at an especially slow pace. “Their daily ...
First gluttony, sloth, sensuality, and anger. Do nothing evil, neither in the presence of others, nor privately; But above all things respect yourself. In the next place, observe justice in your actions and in your words. And do not accustom yourself to behave yourself in any thing without rule, and without reason.
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