Obama Calls It Fairness. The GOP Calls It Class Warfare. Scripture Calls It Envy

Townhall.com ^ | January 29, 2012 | Doug Giles

[Chode]

one of the 7 deadly sins...

[thirst4truth]

I see some of this playing out with my adult children and their friends. My youngest, 24, started a chimney sweep business about 2+ years ago, $500,000+ gross sales in that time!

He now has three full time employees, getting there he had his friends from school who need the job, help him. He is constantly having trouble with their promptness, courteousness to the customer, quality of job, etc. When after much warning, he is way too nice, he fires them.

One recently fired "friend" went online and trashed his name and reputation on Emily's list and other consumer websites. He partnered with another disgruntled, envious former friend and employee to post bad things on Facebook and Twitter and Linkedin.

My son threatened to sue and they backed off for now, the point being it is not only in politics but envy is present in an attempt to take down a industrious entrepreneur citizen trying to build something positive and help others.

One of his employees is his, college graduate cousin. They make a great team and the cousin is very grateful to have a job as the office manager. The problem? my own sister and brother in law are bad mouthing the kind of business, dirty work with your hands manual labor job that he finally got after two years out of college. Is that envy as well?

[NTHockey]

For all the good he did, Reagan too made mistakes. Amnesty and the 47% are two. Time for us to rectify both - attrition the illegals OUT and make sure EVERYONE pays their fair share.

[Kaslin]

I believe it is not only envy, but also snobbery

[supercat]

We hear a lot about greed being bad, but in Obamaland envy is no longer a rank vice but a right and a virtue. However, historically speaking, envy has always been seen as a high-ranking sin. Envy, matter of fact, is second on the Seven Deadly Sins list as it lags behind pride a wee bit in being the nastiest and most common vice.

I'm not familiar with any particular "ranking" of the Seven Deadly Sins, but would suggest that six of them actually represent good things taken to excess. Envy is the only one of the Seven Deadly Sins which is bad in any quantity.