Yet Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica assures us that gluttony is a capital sin, especially because of its propensity to generate other vices, such as lust, pride, envy, and avarice.12 Furthermore, Aquinas cites John Chrysostom in the fourth century as attributing both the Fall and the Flood to gluttony: ???Gluttony turned Adam out of Paradise, gluttony it was that drew down the deluge at the