MORALITY

MORALITY 

THE SEVEN MAIN/UNFORGIVABLE SINS / ሰባቱ ሥርየት አልባ ኃጢአቶች

Sin: an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law. "a sin in the eyes of God"

1. THE SIN OF ADAM / ሃጢአተ አዳም

2. THE KILLING OF ABEL / የአቤል ግድያ

3. THE TOWER OF BABYLON (ጥቅመ ሰናኦር)

4. HOMOSEXUALITY / ግብረ ሰዶም

5. THE SIN OF FORGETTING WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR US AND GO AGAINST HIS WILL / የእግዚአብሔርን ውለታ መርሳት

6. THE KILLING OF ZECHARIAH / የዘካርያስ ግድያ

7. THE DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST / ሞተ ወልደ እግዚአብሔር

2. THE KILLING OF ABEL

This is where brothers kill each other for various reasons that don’t meet any requirements.

Reasons for Murder

a) Personal revenge : People murder people for the deep seated need for taking revenge. The need for revenge can especially come from a childhood incident that keeps haunting that person for his/her entire life.

b) Poverty : People gets paid to murder someone. So if you have lost faith in the term ‘righteousness’ and if you’re in a really bad type of poverty , you surely will murder someone for money.

c) Medical conditions / Psychological illnesses : Psychological illnesses can make someone to murder people. There can be murderers who don’t even know that they’ve murdered people. Somnambulism or sleep-walking can cause murderers to murder people in their sleep without even having the slightest clue about it.

d) Losing faith in righteousness : Murderers can rationalize murders in a very sophisticated way. It’s because they have a different view of righteousness. They are righteous in their very own way.

e) Idealistic clash : Fanatics. Anarchists. You name it. Fanatics kill people for their single minded attitude to their ideals.

REASONS FOR KILLING PEOPLE

I. Personal Vendettas/Vengeance

• a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer's family.

• a prolonged bitter quarrel with or campaign against someone.

II. Property Disputes

• Property Law Law and Legal Definition. ... Property is anything that is owned by a person or entity.

• Property is divided into two types: "real property," which is any interest in land, real estate, growing plants or the improvements on it, and "personal property" (sometimes called "personalty"), which is everything else.

• People kill each other in order to take properties that are to be either shared or inherited in case of heavy disputes hence minimizing the sacredness of life and humane.

• Big sin with inevitable consequences.

III. Witch Craft

• Black magic is widely believed to be responsible for fights, barrenness, illness, and even death.

IV. Human/Child Sacrifice

Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a god or supernatural beings in order to achieve a desired result.

As such, it is a form of human sacrifice.

Reasons for Human Sacrifice

• It also generally helped prevent loss of social divisions once they existed. Despite its barbaric nature, human sacrifice was a useful tool for rulers, elites, and religious figures to maintain or cement their power, or even to proclaim their own divinity.
• A human life was the most valuable sacrifice that the Vikings could make to the gods. We know from written sources that Odin – the king of the gods – demanded human sacrifices.
• The Incas performed child sacrifices during or after important events, such as the death of the Sapa Inca (emperor) or during a famine. Children were selected as sacrificial victims as they were considered to be the purest of beings. ... The Incan high priests took the children to high mountaintops for sacrifice.
• Aztec priests, using razor-sharp obsidian blades, sliced open the chests of sacrificial victims and offered their still-beating hearts to the gods. They then tossed the victims' lifeless bodies down the steps of the towering Templo Mayor.
• According to Roman sources, Celtic Druids engaged extensively in human sacrifice. According to Julius Caesar, the slaves and dependents of Gauls of rank would be burnt along with the body of their master as part of his funerary rites.
• Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities, and the sacrifice of a living creature was a powerful blood offering. By extension, the sacrifice of a human life was the ultimate offering of blood to the gods, and the most important Maya rituals culminated in human sacrifice.

VI. HONOR KILLINGS

This is when a family member especially the female family member is killed due to disgrace committed against religious or cultural values that ruin the name of that specific family.

V. LOVE AFFAIRS

VI. ILLICIT RELATIONSHIPS

VII. POLITICAL REASONS

VIII. COMMUNALISM

IX. DOWRY