Pride (Latin: superbia) is considered, on almost every list, the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins. Out of the seven, it is the most angelical, or demonic. It is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins. Also known as hubris (from ancient Greek ὕβρις), or futility, it is identified as dangerously corrupt selfishness, the putting of one's own desires, urges, wants, and whims before the welfare of other people.
In even more destructive cases, it is irrationally believing that one is essentially and necessarily better, superior, or more important than others, failing to acknowledge the accomplishments of others, and excessive admiration of the personal image or self (especially forgetting one's own lack of divinity, and refusing to acknowledge one's own limits, faults, or wrongs as a human being).
What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, line 203.
As pride has been labelled the father of all sins, it has been deemed the devil's most prominent trait. C.S. Lewis writes, in Mere Christianity, that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind." Pride is understood to sever the spirit from God, as well as His life-and-grace-giving Presence.
One can be prideful for different reasons. Author Ichabod Spencer states that "spiritual pride is the worst kind of pride, if not worst snare of the devil. The heart is particularly deceitful on this one thing." Jonathan Edwards said "remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility."
Yes, in a sense, but widespread public degeneracy, even if people keep it to themselves, eventually brings God’s wrath down on the nation we all share as our common home. I would posit we need to witness to God’s laws yet avoid judging individual people.
ABSOLUTELY. "Look everybody! I put my weiner where it ain't supposed to go! I am SO proud"
SICK
One could also call it "widespread pubic degeneracy," and/or "widespread ellen degeneracy." kek
THIS!
That's why it was chosen. WIDE is the road that leads to hell...
Pride is what got lucifer cast from heaven. He was the most beautiful of the angels. Thought himself greater than the Creator.
Pride cometh before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs.
Perfect Post yesterday:
"They're taking the symbol used after God destroyed the world and using it to highlight their sins."
This will work well.
Pride is unproblematic on it's own, even wanting to display that one knows better involves pride....
Fear is the real problem, that makes you selfish and self-serving and if it goes on for any length of time it will start to cause resentment of others that don't share that fear and it is basically downhill from there as this leads to anger and hate.
Think about it, the worst of the worst are always driven by fear and rage, fear is never constructive, it clouds the judgement and causes irrational behavior, even fearing for others rarely leads to anything good and it is the one emotion that can poison any other emotion...
Thousands of years and hundreds of authors and scholars disagree with you, that is not an easy feet.
You misspelled feet... it's phfheeat.
Hundreds starting from the same premise of the bibles deadly sins are likely to come to the same conclusion, limiting your starting point limits any conclusions that can be drawn.
Hundreds of feet walking the same path tends to arrive at the same destination.....
Soloman wrote in proverbs that all wisdom comes directly from god. It's not you who is being wise, god has given you the knowledge. You can know better and not take pride in it, because the wisdom is not yours. I agree with you about fear tho.
Master Yoda/Anakin vibes
Ghey.
Pride is not inherently evil. Proud of your accomplishments, your kids, your team.
Painting with an awfully broad brush there.
will we see you in the FAG parade ?
Why? Because I disagree that pride is inherently evil?
But thanks for letting us know you and your boyfriends will be watching.
lol you clearly display all the signs of PRIDE
You ever heard of arrogance? I think you're confusing the two.
Again, being proud of anything isn't inherently bad. Context matters; Nuance matters.
I think the post is clear and there is plenty of context provided in the text.
It is PRIDE month for the degenerate LBGTQ crowd, which you clearly don't approve of..
You, however, take a nuanced if not off subject position, to make a meaningless point.
My daughter taking pride in her good grade is not harmful pride, no shit.
It's cool... I'm no religifag... I just disagree with the premise that pride all by itself is a sin (whatever that is) which is in the title of your thread.
Pride isn't inherently evil. It just isn't. I personally don't think that people that are proud to be ghey are evil either... That's none of my business. As with all people, it's not their thoughts, sexual preferences etc that make them good or bad... It's their behaviors.
There is more nuance than that. Your daughter taking pride in her good grade can be harmful depending on the kind of pride.
Self-righteous pride (as in "I'm so much holier than everyone else") is one of the most dangerous ones. Pride comes in many forms and often with the company of other vices like arrogance.
I'm not saying you're being negatively prideful here, but the way you're responding to OkieBowhunter and other people not agreeing with you completely does seem somewhat arrogant or prideful.
I think pride isn't so much a problem perhaps as a lack of humility. It's often better to passively preach or lead by example than it is to aggressively send out the message, or shame, or assert some kind of dominance.
If the LGBT stuff had humility, for example, they would not be having a pride month, or shoving it down in peoples throats. They'd be living their own life on their own; dispute that as you will, sin or not it is their right as long as they are not forcing it upon others.
That's what christians do. They try to make the world their own and expect everyone to conform to their dogma or else. That's how the deep state works, too, and they're every bit a rivaling threat to freedom and liberty.
Not only that but they're usually self-righteous, hypocritical prigs
Yup! Already had that experience here.
^ This!
Pride isn't exactly one uniform thing. There are different kinds of pride.
Selfish pride, for example, is bad; basically, where you're taking something and using it to elevate yourself above others.
Grateful pride, as in, "I'm so proud of my children because they have grown up to be fantastic. Thank you God for your goodness!" is good. It is not a sort of pride in which one is seeking to put themselves above others, it is simply an expression of joy at accomplishments or a state of affairs.
Arrogance is also closely tied with pride; that kind of pride and that arrogance itself is not good.
Give grace to humility and resist pride.
Pride and self esteem and group solidarity-and global warming. No coincidence these have been all public schools have taught for the 27 years I've worked for them- oh yes, and "Civil rights"- except if you're white, straight, or Christian- because they're the devil. So transparent. No surprise there are so many who know so much that isn't so, but a better surprise that so many have retained common sense in the face of the non stop onslaught.
RIGHT. Being proud of where one places their sexual organ and/or what one does with it is sheer madness.
FORCING this twisted behavior upon the masses as if it represents any kind of normalcy is both absurd and highly offensive.
Doesn't anyone pushing this insanity remember in grade school, how it was IMPOSSIBLE to hammer a square peg into a round hole? That's because it was not DESIGNED to go there. (mic drop)
Well, actually it's all about LUST. Not love.
thank you for pointing that out
And gay marriage is about Pedo's getting adotion rights.
Pride cometh before the fall....
The first rebels pride led to his fall and set all of this into motion. Never forget.
I still think greed is the deadliest, it seems to tie in the most with "money is the root of all evil"
These people are sick
Actually envy is the most disgusting of the major sins.
Wrath? Gluttony? Sloth? Envy? Pride? Lust? Greed?
How can you choose?
It seems simple to me. Envy is the worst because it’s lusting after what someone else has. It’s similar to jealousy which can be said to be a virtuous trait because jealous means that you wish that you could have what someone else has but haven’t yet earned it. Envy however is when you hate someone Elise because they have something that you could never have. It is a disgusting trait that we see pushed so often with the rich/poor, have/haven nots.
D’nesh D’Souza has a great commentary on envy.
Proudly "virtue signaling" compliance! Proudly conforming to assure continued membership in an oblivious mind-controlled cult. Proudly pursuing achieving a legacy of EGO gratification.