To be proud is to blasphamy?

[Exmortis]

I understand every one of god's 'Seven deadly sins' except for pride. Why is it evil to be proud of ones acomplishments or the accomplishments of ones child. Perhaps they actually ment arrogance but discarded it because it didn't sound as cool as pride.

... Listen...

Pride... Pr..ide... Pr..i..de...... PRIDE!... pride


Can anyone shead some light on this?

 

[Unwardil]

God also hates polysyllabic words.

 

[TheFlyingBastard]

As far as I understand it's not pride as we in modern English understand it to be, but more like lack of humility. As in. "Gareth is too proud to admit he's full of it".

 

[Aught3]

Also they weren't adopted in English so I doubt the sound of 'pride' is the reason.

 

[DeathofSpeech]

I understand every one of god's 'Seven deadly sins' except for pride. Why is it evil to be proud of ones acomplishments or the accomplishments of ones child. Perhaps they actually ment arrogance but discarded it because it didn't sound as cool as pride.

... Listen...

Pride... Pr..ide... Pr..i..de...... PRIDE!... pride


Can anyone shead some light on this?

I think you mean Vanity. Self adoration. "To take the lord's name in vain..." To equate oneself with god or to usurp god's authority by comparing oneself favorably to god.

Think Pat Robertson.

Pride is admiration for one's own accomplishments... which in the proper context can be interpreted as taking credit for your own accomplishments, which is of course vain. Pride may be taken in good works, provided that you happen to be popular enough to get away with it, and you make some claim to being god's instrument. Otherwise, all that work you put into feeding the poor, building a hospital, or curing disease may have been a lifetime of intense effort... but pat yourself on the ass once for it and you'll burn in hell.

christians are batshit neurotic crazy fuckers.

 

[Giliell]

On a good day I manage 6 out of 7.
I think that lust and sloth are mutually exclusive if done propperly.

Well, as a good christian you never achieve anything yourself, remember. Every good thing that happens is because of god, so to be proud of it yourself is noch acknowledging god's work

 

[lrkun]

I understand every one of god's 'Seven deadly sins' except for pride. Why is it evil to be proud of ones acomplishments or the accomplishments of ones child. Perhaps they actually ment arrogance but discarded it because it didn't sound as cool as pride.

... Listen...

Pride... Pr..ide... Pr..i..de...... PRIDE!... pride


Can anyone shead some light on this?

What is pride?

Pride is a feeling of self-respect and personal worth.

The Bible says in the first three commandments that: a. I am your bebe; b. you shall have no other bebe besides me; c. you shall not make any graven images.

Pride is a sin, be cause it represents one's self-respect and personal worth, which is something that god dislikes. God says through the bible that he is the only bebe in which people must respect, love, and worship. Therefore if one loves the self more than him, be this person be male or female, he must homosexually love him, or she must give herself to him (please enjoy the joke).

 

[Yfelsung]

If Pride is blasphemy, that just racks up another blasphemous thing I do every day.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Any religion that is founded in large part on calling you a worthless piece of shit is a bit of bad juju. You've got to love the whole "seven deadly sins", which boil down to a list of things that seem perfectly good in moderation, and are only bad when you take them way too far. Catholics take the list and use it to say "don't enjoy yourself too much, or really much at all. Err on the side of caution for the sake of your immortal soul."

Fuck all that. Anything worth doing is occasionally worth overdoing.

 

[Yfelsung]

To be fair, the seven deadly sins aren't in the bible.

Like much of Christian mythos, they were invented in the middle ages by the Church with the excuse that the bible "implies" it.

 

[Andiferous]

I think pride is the least of the seven mortal sins to be worried about.

I actually kinda like that one.

But to be more clear (Wiki is better at this than I am):

In Roman Catholic moral theology, a mortal sin, as distinct from a venial sin, must meet all of the following conditions at the same time:

1. Its subject must be a grave (or serious) matter.
2. It must be committed with full knowledge, both of the sin and of the gravity of the offense (no one is considered ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are inborn as part of human knowledge, but these principles can be misunderstood in a particular context).
3. It must be committed with deliberate and complete consent, enough for it to have been a personal decision to commit the sin.

 

[Josan]

I understand every one of god's 'Seven deadly sins' except for pride. Why is it evil to be proud of ones acomplishments or the accomplishments of ones child. Perhaps they actually ment arrogance but discarded it because it didn't sound as cool as pride.

... Listen...

Pride... Pr..ide... Pr..i..de...... PRIDE!... pride


Can anyone shead some light on this?

As far as I can remember, the deadly sins are considered "dangerous" by religious people because it takes your focus away from God. Even if you live a completely ethical spotless life, you won't get into heaven (because you're tainted through your heritage) and thus the only way to heaven is through belief in God. Therefor the deadly sins are to narcissistic for a "true beliver" and thus pride is just as bad as the other deadly sins.

That is, the others might seem unethical because they hurt other people (being to greedy for example), but this is a misnomer, they are un-ethical because they draw your focus away from belief in (and reverance of) God.

Disclaimer: I have never studied theology, and was even to lazy to double-check on wikipedia this time around, so please don't take what I said to seriously.