But because the sinner guilty of greed does not see that what he covets the most is worthless, he ignores the treasure and rewards of Heaven and therefore does not follow the right path. As such this sin blinds the sinner to the fact that material possessions such as gold are worthless compared to the everlasting rewards of heaven. This sin turns the sinner away from God by promoting selfishness, destroying charity, and creating a preoccupation with the acquisition and preservation of material things and possessions. Its most common form is the excessive love of money, manifested in various forms such as miserliness and unethical business practices. Like gluttony, this sin is a sin of excess. Greed - The third deadly sin is the sin of greed or avarice. As such gluttony distracts the sinner from the spiritual life. It can refer to over-eating, which is a sin because it witholds food from the needy and also debases the glutton by making him a slave to base, animal desires, such as his appetite. Gluttony is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste.
Gluttony - The second deadly sin is the sin of gluttony. In Dante's view lust led to "excessive love of others," which therefore made love and devotion to God secondary. Lust is usually thought of as involving obsessive or excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. The First Deadly Sin: Lust - The first deadly sin is the sin of Lust. The sinners that Dante encounters in the Inferno are each punished in accordance with which of the seven deadly sins they were most guilty of while they were alive.
They are a classification of vices used in Christian teaching. The seven deadly sins are also called the chief sins. Each of the seven deadly sins has an opposite among the corresponding seven holy virtues: chastity, abstinence, temperance, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility. In the 6th Century AD, the Catholic Pope Gregory the Great listed the the seven deadly sins are as follows: Luxuria (extravagance, later lust), Gula (gluttony), Avaritia (greed), Acedia (sloth), Ira (wrath, more commonly known as anger), Invidia (envy), and Superbia (pride). One can gain a deeper understanding of Dante's Inferno by studying the seven deadly sins which brought these souls to this miserable place. As Dante journeys through the Inferno he encounters sinners condemned to eternal damnation because of their actions or in some cases inaction while on earth.
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