The Moral Psychology of Pride by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783489107
Publisher: National Book Network International

According to this passage, pride is labelled as one of the qualities that we ought to avoid, along with arrogance, hypocrisy, conceit, anger, cruelty and ignorance. The qualities that we ought to strive, conversely, resemble the qualities that the Christian tradition favours: self-control, sincerity, truthfulness, love, compassion, servience (full of the desire to serve) and realizing the truth of the scripture (i.e., the Bible).22

The association between demonic qualities and atheist beliefs is further articulated in the verses 16:7–9.

The demonic do things they should avoid and avoid the things they should do. They have no sense of uprightness, purity, or truth. There is no God,’ they say, ‘no truth, no spiritual law, no moral order. The basis of life is sex; what else can it be?’ Holding such distorted views, possessing scant discrimination, they become enemies of the world, causing suffering and destruction. Hypocritical, proud, and arrogant, living in delusion and clinging to deluded ideas, insatiable in their desires, they pursue their unclean ends.

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