Orange is the new Burke

Hopefully someone with a better religious background can clarify but isn't the Burke family guilty of Pride and Wrath, two of the cardinal sins? It would take a braver man that I to challenge them to a theology debate but perhaps such a debate might offer some opportunity of a stepdown from the brinkmanship on display.

I’m not very religious but I do the mass thing etc because I’m a parent and they’re involved in the children’s mass and seem to enjoy it for now. I won’t force them like my parents did with us. I think what matters is to be as good a Christian as you can by how you treat others. The Burkes seem to me to be far from the Christian values I was raised with but then I don’t know much about their religion and of course it’s open to interpretation. Then again, we were beaten in school by nuns and priests so just because you’re religious, doesn’t mean you’re kind, charitable or better than anyone else.

See, I knew someone smarter that me would come along. :)

They're widely displayed in catholic churches but they're not really part of the dogma. And there's non catholic denominations that reference them. It's probably best thought of as "Western christian tradition". A lot of protestant denominations keep a lot of catholic traditions. Although a lot of the newer evangelical groups ditched everything.

So the actual answer is that they probably don't but who the fcuk knows.

The tradition of the seven deadly sins is actually quite strong amongst evangelicals, even though they're not mentioned in the bible.

Arch evangelical preacher Billy Graham wrote two books about them::

Here's his justification for discussing them:

They're mentioned in a lot of contemporary evangelical websites too.

As for the Burkes, who knows if they regard the list as being significant, but they would certainly recognise each one individually as a sin, as they're all specifically called out in various places in the bible.

Of course, it gets complicated. The sin of Pride is taking credit for your actions or achievements, when you should be giving the credit to God. The sin of Wrath is taking retribution on people, when you should be leaving that to God. So actions that one person may condemn as pride or wrath, could be justified in the name of God to the believer. As always, there's a get-out clause: I'm doing it in God's name, so it can't be a sin. And the Bible is so contradictory that there's plenty of passages that justify pride and wrath in various ways.

Yes.

No, other an the fine being accrued.

None so far.

It was due to be heard but he was late to court so it was adjourned.

Oh fair enough , maybe I missed the context.

I had the 28th in my head alright but I wasn’t sure what was what 😂. Isn’t O’Moore handling both issues? Do we know yet is he running them together or keeping them separate? This could go on for years with all their cases 🫣

I said they wouldn't use the term 7 deadly sins because they are evangelical. it was somebody else who said it was not a non-catholic thing.

See, I could have swore that somewhere in this thread it was mentioned that they were part of some larger umbrella evangelical group. The umbrella group was a collection of smaller ones used for facilitating certain things. But I've been googling and it seems like you're 100% right. It's just them. I can't find any reference to any other group.