If the “Seven Deadly Sins” are all that deadly, why is it so enlivening to stuff our faces in Grant Park, admire ourselves in South Beach, bet the house at Caesars Palace, surf ESPN channels in Indianapolis, hate the Giants at Eagles games, flip someone the bird on Michigan Avenue and casually copulate in Oregon?

Talk about a misnomer.

If the “Seven Deadly Sins” are all that deadly, why is it so enlivening to stuff our faces in Grant Park, admire ourselves in South Beach, bet the house at Caesars Palace, surf ESPN channels in Indianapolis, hate the Giants at Eagles games, flip someone the bird on Michigan Avenue and casually copulate in Oregon?

A saintly town neglectful of every sinful habit (is there such a hell?) is duller than Brussels.

So to the following lively U.S. cities — don’t go changing on our behalf.

You’re imperfect just the way you are.

Click through the pages to get a sinful travel itinerary through the United States.

(Editor’s Note: Al Mohler wrote a column in 2008 on the same topic based on studies done by Forbes Magazine.)