(February 11, 2023 at 3:01 am)Belacqua Wrote: If I am a proud man, then, as long as there is one man in the whole world more powerful, or richer, or cleverer than I, he is my rival and my enemy.
Ah, "enemy". Lewis is being overdramatic. You can easily tag the other person in these circumstances as a rival, he doesn't have to be the enemy.
Not to mention that you don't need pride to have natural enemies, you can also say that people are natural enemies competing for food, job positions, university enlisting, etc.
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"
