Then in 1991 Remo had the fiendishly mercantile idea to replace the sins and virtues with new category words to create an enduring symbol and logo for the REMO General Store. The Bible doesn’t contain a verse or passage that lists the seven deadly sins. The original phrenology-head-inspired design (still available from REMO online here) was silk screened in black with the Seven Deadly Sins printed on one side and the Seven Heavenly Virtues printed on the other. The Seven Deadly Sins lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride are sins that characterize fallen humanity, according to the Roman Catholic Church. Back in 1989 they were celebrated in a T Shirt design created for us by New York based designer Douglas Riccardi (then working with Tibor Kalman at the M&Co. We have a long relationship with the Seven Deadly Sins at REMO.
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In combination the sins and virtues comprise the original self-help book: an instructional balancing act of what to do, what not to do, how to behave, how not to behave an attempt from long ago to tell us how to live, what to aim for and how to be one's best self. The seven deadly sins exist in a theological tug of war with the seven capital virtues: chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, kindness, patience and humility. Gregory's list became the standard list of sins that we all now commit on a fairly regular basis. In AD 590, Pope Gregory I revised the list by combining tristitia with acedia (a nice Greek word with an approximate meaning “to despond”) and vanagloria with superbia, and adding envy (which is invidia in Latin). Superbia (pride, hubris) < Ed: Isn’t Superbia a good word! Trivialised in more recent times by a range of Magnum Ice Cream flavours and with reference to a band of Japanese anime knights, the original idea of the seven deadly sins is linked to the works of the fourth-century Christian monk Evagrius Ponticus, who actually listed EIGHT evil thoughts in Greek … later translated into Latin in the many writings of John Cassian (another monk), thus becoming part of the Western tradition's spiritual “pietas” or Catholic devotions as follows:
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