I swear to god there's been like 3 pride months in the past year
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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.
I didn't either until an English teacher in college who was covering Shakespeare's Othello made the point. She interpreted Iago as the poster-child for unfettered praise heaped onto a person through their life. When they reach their peak as adults they are confronted with the tragedy of being mere second-best at something and that is the toxic frame of mind that can fester into the jealous rage that exemplified Iago's character. He conspired to destroy a national hero just because he cast a long shadow.
Enough people tell you you're the greatest, and you believe it, you may even be tempted to kill to make it so.