Quirky App Of The Day: Which Is Your Deadly Sin?
by Kathryn Zane
June 29, 2011
I've grown up in a community where guilt is a type of currency. It was always a guessing game of trying to figure out exactly why I was in trouble this time. Don't get me wrong, I always had my fair share of mischief. Looking back, that probably helped people be suspicious of me. However, most of my mischief was normal kid stuff: eating ants, poking at bugs with a stick, and climbing trees higher than my mother's comfort level. There was simply a fog of impending doom hanging over the kids, wondering what new thing was forbidden, wrong, and stupidly taken away from us.
Now, as some have so eloquently stated, it seems like everything fun is illegal, immoral, unhealthy, or expensive. Doesn't that fit under the umbrella of the deadly sins? Not only that the things themselves can be placed under those four categories, but that we want them so much to begin with? I'm not going to go on any sort of religious rant. My observations stop there. The things we want seem to be right out of reach.
What better way to gauge which vices you love most than with a handy-dandy app? Which Is Your Deadly Sin? does exactly that. After answering a series of questions, you discover exactly what sin is going to send you to hell. Unless you're a victim of sloth and didn't even answer them to begin with. Well, theoretically, it could be a combination of deadly sins that gets you there. I suppose some people just want to have all their bases covered.
Truthfully, the fun of the app is wondering, "Who feels like this or thinks this way all the time?" there is no right answer to these quizzes. I know that people say that because, normally, any answer could be correct. Well, in this case, none of them are right. All of them are wrong in some way, shape, or form.
While some may feel a tightening sensation in their chest at the realization that there is no possible way to be right, some may be liberated by it. Why not select each answer that would scandalize your mother most? Of course she raised you better, but she's not here right now. So, go on. Take a walk on the wild side.
For those who are guilty of the sin of greed, you don't even have to buy it. Which Is Your Deadly Sin? is available at iTunes for the awesome price of FREE!
