Deadly sins prey for me transcript6/22/2023 It is the sin that would rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. It is the sin that values self-righteousness over compassion, dignity over humility, autonomy over society. For Pride is not merely self-interest but self-assertion. Pride could be called “the sin of taking yourself too seriously.” Chesterton quipped that “Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly,” while “Satan fell by the force of gravity.” While my definition may seem flippant, I think it captures the difference between the self-respect which objects to being ruled badly and the arrogance which objects to being ruled at all. Indeed, it does of all the seven capital (“deadly”) sins, Superbia is the most flexible and the most elusive, attacking us in ways we hardly recognize. “Pride - it gets ’em every time,” chortles Satan (Al Pacino) at the end of the 1997 film The Devil’s Advocate.
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