Short Stuff: The S7VEN Deadly Sins
The podcast episode of The Short Stuff explores the origins and evolution of the Seven Deadly Sins, revealing they weren’t biblical but were first conceptualized by a 4th-century monk named Evagrius Ponticus as eight 'evil thoughts' meant to guide monastic discipline. Over centuries, th
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