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Examples Of Greed In Dante's Inferno

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In the Dante's poem "Inferno", two types of sin are signalized. One of the sins is the sin of greed. "It was squandering and hoarding that have robbed them of the lovely world, and got them in this brawl.." In their earth life they were overcome by greed. They were wealthy and used their wealth in the wrong ways instead of being generous they were greedy, abusing material goods. They hoarded their riches or spend their fortune carelessly. In the poem, it says, the sinners were covered in mud and hardly recognizable, but the traveler pointed out the sinners baldness and asked if they were priests? Which they turned out to be priests, popes, and cardinals. I think this shows that someone who appears to be morally right, may be deceiving. The
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