Editing Vice (section)

=== Christianity ===
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[[File:Stiftskirche Niederhaslach Glasfenster (Kampf der Tugenden mit dem Laster).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Virtue]]s fighting vices, stained glass window (14th century) in the [[Niederhaslach Church]]]]
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Christians believe there are two kinds of vice:{{Citation needed|reason=Can it be stated that these distinctions truly apply broadly across the entire Christian world?|date=April 2010}}
* Vices that come from the physical organism as instincts, which can become perverse (such as lust)
* Vices that come from false idolatry in the spiritual realm

The first kind of vice, though sinful, is believed less serious than the second. Vices recognized as spiritual by Christians include [[blasphemy]] ([[Sacred|holiness]] betrayed), [[apostasy]] ([[faith]] betrayed), despair ([[hope]] betrayed), [[hatred]] ([[Love (religious views)|love]] betrayed), and indifference (scripturally, a "hardened heart"). Christian theologians have reasoned that the most destructive vice equates to a certain type of [[pride]] or the complete idolatry of the self. It is argued that through this vice, which is essentially competitive, all the worst evils come into being. In Christian theology, it originally led to the [[Fall of Man]], and, as a purely diabolical spiritual vice, it outweighs anything else often condemned by the Church.

==== Roman Catholicism ====<!-- This section is linked from [[Lust]] -->
The [[Roman Catholic|Roman Catholic Church]] distinguishes between vice, which is a habit of sin, and the sin itself, which is an individual morally wrong act. In Roman Catholicism, the word ''sin'' also refers to the state that befalls one upon committing a morally wrong act. In this section, the word always means the sinful act. It is the sin, and not the vice, that deprives one of God's [[sanctifying grace]] and renders one deserving of God's [[Hell in Christian beliefs#hell in Rom Cath|punishment]]. [[Thomas Aquinas]] taught that "absolutely speaking, the sin surpasses the vice in wickedness".<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15403c.htm Entry for ''vice''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070405184628/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15403c.htm |date=2007-04-05 }} at NewAdvent.org online Catholic Encyclopedia.</ref> On the other hand, even after a person's sins have been [[Sacrament of Penance (Catholic Church)|forgiven]], the underlying habit (the vice) may remain. Just as vice was created in the first place by repeatedly yielding to the temptation to sin, so vice may be removed only by repeatedly resisting temptation and performing virtuous acts; the more entrenched the vice, the more time and effort needed to remove it. Saint [[Thomas Aquinas]] says that following rehabilitation and the acquisition of virtues, the vice does not persist as a habit, but rather as a mere disposition and one that is in the process of being eliminated. Medieval illuminated manuscripts circulated with colorful schemas for developing proper attitudes, with scriptural allusions modelled on nature: the [[tree of virtues]] as blossoming flowers or vices bearing sterile fruit, The Renaissance writer [[Pietro Bembo]] is credited with reaffirming and promoting the Christian perfection of classical humanism. Deriving all from love (or the lack thereof) his<ref>[http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/images/tp1515/1515.wc3.150dpi.jpeg Flow diagram leading to the deeper-seated vices in purgatory] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505235431/http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/images/tp1515/1515.wc3.150dpi.jpeg |date=2012-05-05 }}</ref> schemas were added as supplements<ref>[http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/text/1515.venice.html Aldus' second edition printing of Dante's Divine Comedy, Venice 1502.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205212641/http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/text/1515.venice.html |date=2012-02-05 }}</ref> in the newly invented technology of printing by [[Aldus Manutius]] in his editions of Dante's Divine Comedy dating from early in the 16th century.