Pride is the feeling that \u201cI can define reality\u201d and that includes the feeling that \u201cI can belong to what others have defined as reality\u201d.<\/p>\n
There is great comfort in belonging to a group \u2013 a tribe – so completely that one \u201cdoes not know any different\u201d.<\/p>\n
At the same time, in Civilization, no group is the whole, not even the Church or the Sovereign.<\/p>\n
But, what is to stop a group \u2013 a Church or a Sovereign or Whatever \u2013 from defining itself as the whole?<\/p>\n
Pride goes before the fall.<\/p>\n
The tribe can commit sins that no individual in the tribe would imagine possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pride is the feeling that \u201cI can define reality\u201d and that includes the feeling that \u201cI can belong to what others have defined as reality\u201d. There is great comfort in belonging to a group \u2013 a tribe – so completely that one \u201cdoes not know any different\u201d. At the same time, in Civilization, no group […]<\/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-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-science-of-original-sin"],"yoast_head":"\n