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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
September 26, 2022 at 10:41 am
No more or less so than their torture totems.
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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
September 26, 2022 at 11:15 am
(September 25, 2022 at 8:42 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Frankly, having read Mere Christianity and Surprised by Joy, I regard C.S. Lewis as a self-righteous twit and don't give a hoot for what he has to say about anything. 
I liked The Screwtape Letters....
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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
September 27, 2022 at 7:19 am
(September 26, 2022 at 11:15 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: (September 25, 2022 at 8:42 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: Frankly, having read Mere Christianity and Surprised by Joy, I regard C.S. Lewis as a self-righteous twit and don't give a hoot for what he has to say about anything.
I liked The Screwtape Letters....
I read about a third of The Screwtape Letters when I was in high school, but I've forgotten most of it. I have no doubt that it influenced me when writing Arwen's Journey: A Tale of Middle Earth, in that I named one of the story's villains Linner Wormwood. 
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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
October 9, 2022 at 1:53 am
LMFAO CS Lewis, only seemed to use his brain, when he was first an atheist, I believe he was really young when he did this, like 15, then he stopped thinking when he regained his 'belief in a god' I mean talk about wanting a get rich idea 'such a highly regarded christian apologist.' Any job that involves religion is just a scam. Besides just studying it to write about how it's complete shit. I just always feel bad for when people give money to a religion, to do good, it's like no it's a get rich scheme.
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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
October 9, 2022 at 8:49 am
(October 9, 2022 at 1:53 am)Tomatoshadow2 Wrote: LMFAO CS Lewis, only seemed to use his brain, when he was first an atheist, I believe he was really young when he did this, like 15, then he stopped thinking when he regained his 'belief in a god' I mean talk about wanting a get rich idea 'such a highly regarded christian apologist.' Any job that involves religion is just a scam. Besides just studying it to write about how it's complete shit. I just always feel bad for when people give money to a religion, to do good, it's like no it's a get rich scheme.
I don't believe Lewis was ever an atheist. It was merely fashionable for him to call himself one at the time. More accurately, he was a rebellious, posturing, non-practicing theist.
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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
October 11, 2022 at 3:36 am
I didn't have time to read all the posts prior to here, but I did read most. All I can say as a person who used to be a devoted Christian... Anything and everything under the sun that in any way promotes pleasure is anti fucking Christian. Pride makes people feel good, so the Christian Churches started condemning it.
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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
October 11, 2022 at 7:36 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2022 at 7:42 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
A thought came to mind today that might summarize or expand what I've mentioned earlier: Pride is a status detector. It seeks to maintain a person's beliefs about their status in society. Thus why a proud person takes it as an insult to be treated as having a lower status than they perceive themselves to have. Nothing is more offensive to a proud person than to be treated as an equal to those around them.
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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
October 12, 2022 at 11:45 am
In Christianity, pride is seen as a sin because it leads people to put themselves above God. It is because of pride that the Tower of Babel was destroyed - people cannot aspire to be gods. Apparently God requires obedience and subservience, and pride interferes with that.
Pride can be negative when it leads to Hubris and a lack of empathy for others. Otherwise, pride involves feeling good about yourself and about how others perceive you. It is mostly a good thing.
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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
November 5, 2022 at 4:23 pm
(October 12, 2022 at 11:45 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: In Christianity, pride is seen as a sin because it leads people to put themselves above God. It is because of pride that the Tower of Babel was destroyed - people cannot aspire to be gods. Apparently God requires obedience and subservience, and pride interferes with that.
Pride can be negative when it leads to Hubris and a lack of empathy for others. Otherwise, pride involves feeling good about yourself and about how others perceive you. It is mostly a good thing.
Pride is seen as a sin because deluded pride is merely folly but true pride implies that you actually have something of which to be proud. And the mediocre can't stomach that.
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RE: Pride - the worst sin according to C.S.Lewis
November 11, 2022 at 11:42 pm
(September 24, 2022 at 6:21 pm)Duty Wrote: According to the (in)famous book by C S Lewis (an English author) "Mere Christianity", pride is the worst. Yet I feel/think/deduce that having pride in one's deeds and behaviour is central and fundamental to living a decent life. No pride = fail, basically.
I haven't read the book and most likely won't but I agree with you. In fact, I think that pride is one of the three cardinal virtues needed for a successful and happy life.
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