I swear to god there's been like 3 pride months in the past year
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I used to think that pride wasn't such a bad thing, but now I fully realize why it is such a deadly sin in the Christian religion.
There's healthy pride, and then there's overweening pride, and hubris. And oh, there is SO much hubris in modern humans of all stripes and creeds ....
I’ll be the one to get the hate:
There is no such thing as healthy pride in Christianity, multiple passages in Romans and especially in Proverbs condemn all forms of pride (including the LGBT kind in Romans), and ask that you humble yourself instead of giving into your own conceit.
I’m very prone to this (“I know better than you!!!”) so it’s something I try to work on (poorly, unfortunately).
To a Christian it is an inherently dangerous attitude to deny the providence of God's work in your life. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't move in confidence and assuredness, it only means that you shouldn't credit yourself alone for your successes. Pride is a sin in the lethal sense because it supplants God's greatness with your own, looking at your accomplishments and doing the "I made this" meme when you owe your existence, circumstance, and talents to the One who created you.
It comes off very strange to a non-believer, especially in the West in the modern era, because we grew up with the "You're Special for Just Being You" Mr. Rogers philosophy ratcheted to a billion in public schools and applied to everything. We have a deliberately bred generation of egomaniacs who treat the world and everyone in it as extras in their story instead of trying to get along humbly and peacefully.
So proud you must be to wear a forehead dildo and scream "Suck it, bigot!" while in broad daylight on main-street in your parade of thousands doing the same toward the kids the school bussed out to watch.
I never connected the dots between the self-esteem movement and the deadly sin of pride. That's amazing.
Your post also reminded me of old school athletes constantly throwing it up to God after winning the big game. Lefties loved to mock those athletes because "why would God care about a football game", but that was never the implication. Those athletes were demonstrating humility.
People will always react poorly to smugness borne from belief (or join in for unearned self gratification). That's not to say that it is always smugness, but it often comes off that way. I can suffer it if it promotes a baseline of actual virtue, though. Much better than the other forms of smugness borne from belief.
I meant the basic kind of pride that keeps you from looking like a total bag of shit in curlers and sweat pants when you go out to run errands, that sort of thing. Because to lack much isn't a good thing, either.
I'm coming around to the idea that a lot of "sins" that are normal aspects of the human condition are labeled that so they don't become pathological.
Make pride a sin and people will only feel pride when it's really warranted, and not for too long. When it's not a sin then apparently there's no limit on what people can feel prideful about.
Yes. They came from observations of screwed up personalities (that often reach leadership positions and exhibit dark triad personality types), or warnings against behavior that made people physically sick. (eating unclean foods)
Our culture is sick and we see the symptoms.
That is why the 7 sins deadly sins are so deadly. In a vaccum, they seem minor. But ultimately, they lead to worse and worse transgressions, possibly denying one salvation.
Faggot pride began because when all of society was supposedly against them it was their way of saying fuck you I'm still here and still a faggot but now faggots are society and everywhere they go they are encouraged. There is no more need for faggot pride.
If they still push it there's no way they can't deny the need for conservative pride, they are facing much worse violence and ostracization than faggots.
If society were even remotely against them in the last 100 years, they would be being stoned in the streets when caught in the act.
They were. It was a better world, at least when it came to faggots
I honestly wonder if gay people who supported gay pride month would want to cancel it now out of pure embarrassment?
Man, I remember when I used to think "why the fuck would you be proud of that?"
I'm still of the belief that homosexuality is a biological thing, but it's an "accident" in biology - meaning it's not something you should be proud of. It is just a part of what you are but you're not fucking special because of it. There is nothing to be proud of, being proud of it is like - if we're using their argument that it is natural, having legs, or having hair on our heads, etc.
Want to stop being treated like freaks? Stop demanding we should coddle you fuckers for being special.
Same here.
It seemed almost not to even belong on the list. I mean go ahead and be proud, why not, whats the big deal?
With time I've understood that pride, at its core, is a sin against wisdom. Which is to accept ones place and ones limits and to accept responsibilty. To acknowledge the infinite complexity of life and the universe, and to know that you don't know.
Pride is a denounciation of humility. A revolt against the butterfly effect and a surrender to hybris.
I've come to see pride as perhaps the worst sin. The others lead to evil almost as a side effect, or in acts and moments of insanity. While pride leads to deliberate evil, for evil's sake. Out of all the sins it's (perhaps surprisingly) pride which is the one that leads to hatred, and sadism. Or so I belive.