American Pride And The Seven Deadly Sins

I was noticing the other night how America and Americans are so prideful. Then i thought well wait a minute. Isn't pride one of those seven deadly sins the Christians, whose faith America is incorrectly claimed to be founded on, find so detestable?

So i started thinking on that some more and realized that for being so high and mighty righteous America sure does commit quite a few of these deadly sins.

Let's see. First we have greed. American capitalism is ALL about greed. More money more money more money no matter the cost to people or the planet. Just pure unbridled greed and it feeds upon itself.

Next we have sloth. America has become so complacent riding on the dead wave of the the greatness that it did ONCE have that it has become last in the developed world in almost everything. Health, education, worker rights, jobs inventiveness and development esp in the areas of new safer fuels. That would go back to the greed of the traditional energy companies though. And the people have become so compliant and sheep like. Just keep new episodes of american idle and yellow journalism and then government and companies can do as they please.

Next is pride. America is so full of itself with pride that when it is doing so poorly in so many ways. That kind of pride is deadly to American and the world.

Next, lust. It's the American way. You have it, we want it, we take it. Just ask the native american indians, all of the countries that have been invaded for their oil or some other recourse that american companies wanted to capitalize on. Or some piece of land that was "strategically desirable" to the government for whatever reason. See, Want Take.

Next is gluttony. America leads the way by far in consumerism and wastefulness. And pollution.

And don't forget wrath. The american war machine is the biggest in the world and gets the most funding out of anything. Even education. Even for all of the humanitarian things america does and has done it is still an aggressive war machine.

Now don't get me wrong. America does have a lot going for it and does do a lot of good things. But i think it should not delude itself into thinking it is so great without doing the thinks to make it as great as it thinks it is.

I just thought this was an interesting thing to examine. Comments? Feedback?