Maggie's Farm

Pride is a sin. Or so said Pope Gregory "The Great". Who were these men who defined and ranked these sins for us? Shouldn't that be God's call? Yet another crock from the chattering classes of the (almost) ancients.

Their church, not mine. According to the wiki attribution (and to my not so limited but admittedly selective study), it's not even in the bible. Who were they to say what "God's call" was? I'll keep my pride, thank you. I worked for it, I earned it. Granted, my responsibility to keep it tempered by some degree of modesty and perspective. No pope, politician, or pop-shrink has earned the right to redefine, in any pejorative way, my self-satisfaction with my work done with my own hands. I'll grant you 6 of those sins (many popes and later "followers" certainly enjoyed them), but defining pride as a sin, especially as dictated from those who did no work down to those who did, reeks of a power play.

Exactly, Meta. This pride-is-sin nonsense appears to have been running for pert-near 15 centuries. It's nice to know there are others who see it differently...strange...