![]() Sloth prefers a transcendent, deistic God who keeps to himself rather than an immanent, theistic God who is involved in history and human affairs. We don’t want God messing with our favorite loves or our busy lives. Either we feel he has let us down and can no longer be trusted, or we simply prefer that the happy life be found in other things besides him. Sloth as spiritual sluggishness is also called the noon-day demon, since we sometimes find it hard to turn to God in much the same way as we find it difficult to return to work after a hearty lunch. When we are in the throes of spiritual lethargy, God bores us or seems insignificant, whereas other loves capture our interest and attention, excite and energize us. It is a sin of spiritual lethargy and dejection. It is a distinctively spiritual or religious sin that demotes God’s role in our lives and replaces him enthusiastically with other things. Sloth is not just old-fashioned laziness. This deadly sin and disordered form of life is a lack of love for God and the things of God. Here’s how Naugle memorably and eloquently defines sloth: Lust is the disordered love of sex (or sexual pleasure).Gluttony is the disordered love of food and drink.Avarice is the disordered love of money, wealth, and possessions.Anger is the disordered love of justice (or order).I entreat you to fill in the missing blank, if it’s at all possible. For each of the following sins, we tried to define the good that is absent or perverted. The author reinterprets the list of seven deadly sins, “originally formulated to protect monks and nuns from misbehavior in monasteries and nunneries,” through the Augustinian lens of “error and perverted affection, which every son of Adam brings with him at his birth” (pp. Our small group is discussing David Naugle’s book, Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness. Detail of Sloth from “The Seven Deadly Sins” by Hieronymous Bosch
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