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.
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.