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DFRPG / Re: WCV Theorising
« on: April 20, 2010, 03:46:24 PM »
The Parson's Tale presents a theological treatise on repentance and how to overcome the "seven deadly sins" with the virtues of the spiritual life. One of those virtues is magnanimity offered as the virtue to combat the sin of acedia. Now, acedia was considered one of the most serious of sins. It manifested itself in sloth or spiritual despair, but more significantly embodied the temptation to give up caring about anything truly important. Acedia led to spiritual impotence and smallness of heart. Spiritual impotence would allow vice to flourish and virtue to languish, not because vice was purposely chosen or intentionally entered into, but because spiritual lassitude desiccated one's concern to be virtuous.