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Greed is, like Lust and Gluttony, a sin of excess. However, Greed applies to the acquisition of wealth in particular. St.Thomas Aquinas wrote that Greed was "a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things." In Dante's Purgatory, the penitents were bound and laid face down on the ground for having concentrated too much on earthly thoughts. "Avarice,” a kind of greed, is more of a blanket term that can describe many other examples of this sinful behavior. These include disloyalty, deliberate actions, especially for personal gain. You are greatly covetous, collecting possessions and amassing wealth with no intent but to gain more material objects. Your selfish, materialistic desires will fate you to be boiled alive in oil in hell. (The most expensive oil, of course.) To prevent such an end, try the heavenly virtue of generosity. Greed, in Latin Avaritia, is represented by the frog and the color yellow. A Consequence of Greed When Marcus Ramsay is promoted to Corsicana to save a struggling business division, he doesn’t realize he will uncover the details of a decade-old murder involving several of the locals, greedy for one reason or another. Slowly and methodically, and driven by the spirit of murdered James Post, he uncovers the details of the plot, meanwhile possessed by the spirit of the man. In particular, Marcus’ nemesis in the book, and the sculptor of James Post’s murder, Sheila Hickman, recalls her role as murderess in vivid detail via psychedelic dreams induced by her shock treatments, use of drugs, and alcohol. She is the greediest of them all!
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