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."
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.