Besides the pride that goes with putting the spotlight on yourself, there is the pride of standing in the spotlight of others.<\/p>\n
Peters first mentions tribalism.\u00a0 Tribes often appear to have different \u201cmoralities\u201d than individuals.\u00a0 So when an individual stands in the spotlight of her tribe, she takes on moral views that could contradict her own personal moral views.\u00a0\u00a0 The pride of belonging to her \u201ctribe\u201d may take her to places where she would have never gone on her own.<\/p>\n
In terms of An Archaeology of the Fall<\/em>, \u201cbelonging to a tribe\u201d is the closest that an individual typically gets to the impossible stance of \u201cnot knowing any different\u201d (that characterizes the Lebenswelt prior to the emergence of Civilization).\u00a0\u00a0 Every individual in our fallen world feels the lure of group identity; the lust for truly belonging; and the attraction of \u201cnot knowing any different\u201d.\u00a0 And, each group tries to deliver the goods by pretending that \u201cthe illusion that constitutes our identity\u201d is so real that it will transport each member back to that time before \u201ctime\u201d.<\/p>\n Pride makes the illusion seem true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Besides the pride that goes with putting the spotlight on yourself, there is the pride of standing in the spotlight of others. Peters first mentions tribalism.\u00a0 Tribes often appear to have different \u201cmoralities\u201d than individuals.\u00a0 So when an individual stands in the spotlight of her tribe, she takes on moral views that could contradict her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n