Isn’t Envy supposedly one of the great sins?
Thursday, February 5th, 2009I just don’t get it. A few days ago, I was driving my car, listening to the radio, and a commercial came on that just totally “got my goat.”
If I recall correctly, it was a commercial for a furniture store, but I could be wrong. (That part really isn’t important anyway.) What got to me was that they were trying to sell their product by saying something along the lines of “Make all your friends envious by buying our product!”
I don’t understand why anyone would want to make their friends envious!? Isn’t envy supposed to be one of the “great sins?” Isn’t envy bad? Wouldn’t making my friends envious be causing them emotional pain? Why would I want to cause my friends pain? What kind of friend would I be, if I wanted to hurt them? How am I going to be able to keep their friendship if I hurt them? Why would I want to participate in that type of activity?
What kind of society are we living in, where we want to hurt our friends?
I just don’t get it!