Craving, Avarice, and Deadly Sin

Had an interesting exchange on Twitter over the weekend. It began with I made the following tweet:

According to Dorothee Soelle, the Christian “deadly sin” of avarice equals the Buddhist concept of craving.

Here is the quote from Dorothee Soelle which inspired my pithy little comment.

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