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The Problem With Pride

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Posted By: Beardo, 2/24/2024 4:47:01 PM

LGBT Pride Month isn’t until June, but planning is well underway. (snip) It’s been suggested that Christian Pride become a counter-weight to LGBT Pride. (snip) Nothing good ever comes from pride. “Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind,” wrote Oxford scholar and Cambridge Professor C.S. Lewis in his book Mere Christianity. If you think that’s a harsh assessment of pride, Reformed Christian theologian, R.C. Sproul, Jr. took the issue back to its biblical core. “Pride is what brought the devil down in the first place. It is then the root sin of sin, both for him and for us.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: columba 2/24/2024 5:16:13 PM (No. 1664563)
Pride is a sin - end of story.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bpl40 2/24/2024 5:32:59 PM (No. 1664569)
Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit befor a fall!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: volksford 2/24/2024 5:35:38 PM (No. 1664571)
What in hell are these woke as.. jackasses going to to do when they run out of the Julian Calendar ? I am sure in their woke minds they can fill every month with a special group of misfits and malcontents.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Venturer 2/24/2024 5:41:12 PM (No. 1664577)
A whole month dedicated to perversion. Mental illness, and sick sex. When is there a month dedicated to marriage between a man and a woman, Male and female and born that way.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MickTurn 2/24/2024 6:10:17 PM (No. 1664594)
LGBT? What happened to all the EIEIO organizations?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 2/24/2024 6:19:13 PM (No. 1664601)
One of the seven deadly sins. Pride says, 'I'm better than you'. Just like racism, sexism, etc. Now we are supposed to blindly accept black pride and gay pride? Explain how it good for them, but not anybody else. You can't. Pride breeds hatred. So, now we are supposed to accept hatred? No way. Black pride and gay pride are rubbish.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JimBob 2/24/2024 7:38:23 PM (No. 1664620)
I learned early on: "Pride goeth before the fall." As far as I am concerned, being a butt-humper is nothing to be proud of.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Italiano 2/24/2024 7:44:28 PM (No. 1664622)
If you have to bellow to the world and get in everyone's face about how "proud" you are, deep down, you ain't.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: chumley 2/24/2024 8:25:17 PM (No. 1664633)
I am proud of my careers (mostly). I am proud of my family. I am proud of things in life I have accomplished. It seems kind of silly to be proud of who I want to excite my goodies.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Heraclitus 2/24/2024 9:32:44 PM (No. 1664651)
Arrogance Month and Arrogance all the Year Through Belligerence Month etc etc wondering if they've already begun festooning the White House. It was obscene last year. That's another: Obscenity Month, All the Year Trhough
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Reply 11 - Posted by: DVC 2/24/2024 10:52:51 PM (No. 1664671)
Proud of being a sicko pervert? Proud of being abnormal?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: mifla 2/25/2024 4:41:35 AM (No. 1664714)
Don't the rest of the letters get a month?
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Reply 13 - Posted by: paral04 2/25/2024 10:05:55 AM (No. 1664846)
I am not all that bright and am baffled why someone is proud about not wanting to behave as their assigned gender. Is Mother Nature telling them they are losers and shouldn't reproduce? If so, hardly an accolade to parade around with.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: FLCracker 2/25/2024 11:32:24 AM (No. 1664884)
FTA: "“Time for Christians to take pride in their Christianity and go loud, go proud and go bold,” opines one commentator. It may be a tempting proposal, but I don’t think it’s something to pursue for a very simple reason: Nothing good ever comes from pride." Not to mention, we don't want to see our average Christian male wearing one of those vanishingly-skimpy thong-ish things seen in the Leebitquia parades. As I've said before, what exactly is it that the Leebitquias are so proud of?
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