(September 24, 2022 at 7:17 pm)Belacqua Wrote: It means that you feel you are more deserving or more important in society than you really are.
That would be conceit. Pride, objectively, is self-respect and the healthy recognition of one's worth. Pride is a virtue when practiced rationally, but, like other virtues, it can become a vice when carried to excess. Thus pride can become conceit.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
