Editing Seven deadly sins (section)

=== Pride ===
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[[File:Jheronimus Bosch Table of the Mortal Sins (Superbia).jpg|thumb|Detail of ''Pride'' from ''The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things'' by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1500]][[Pride]] is known as [[hubris|''hubris'']] (from the [[Ancient Greek]] {{wikt-lang|grc|ὕβρις}}) or futility; it is considered the original and worst of the seven deadly sins—the most demonic—on almost every list, .<ref name="Climacus 62–63">{{Cite book |last=Climacus |first=John |author-link=John Cliamcus |title=The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Translation by Colm Luibheid and Norman Russell |pages=62–63}}</ref> Pride is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins. Pride is viewed as the opposite of [[humility]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Humility vs Pride And Why The Difference Should Matter To You {{!}} Jeremie Kubicek |url=https://jeremiekubicek.com/humility-vs-pride/ |access-date=2 March 2018 |website=jeremiekubicek.com |language=en-US |archive-date=18 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618175743/https://jeremiekubicek.com/humility-vs-pride/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Acquaviva |first=Gary J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAtNAPteVk0C&q=Pride+is+generally+associated+with+an+absence+of+humility&pg=PA31 |title=Values, Violence and Our Future |date=2000 |publisher=Rodopi |isbn=9042005599 |language=en}}</ref>

[[C. S. Lewis]] writes in ''[[Mere Christianity]]'' that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that Lucifer became wicked: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."<ref>Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis, {{ISBN|978-0-06-065292-0}}</ref> Pride is understood to sever the human spirit from God, as well as from the life and grace given by God's presence.<ref name="Manning"/>

A person can be prideful for different reasons. Author [[Ichabod Spencer]] states that "spiritual pride is the worst kind of pride, if not worst snare of the devil. The heart is particularly deceitful on this one thing."<ref name="Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers-1895">{{Cite book|title=Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers|year=1895|pages=485}}</ref> [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]] wrote: "remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was and lies lowest in the foundation of Lucifer's whole building and is the most difficultly rooted out and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility."<ref>{{Cite book |title=To Deborah Hatheway, Letters and Personal Writings (Works of Jonathan Edwards Online Vol. 16) |last=Claghorn |first=George}}</ref>

Modern use of the term ''pride'' may be captured in the [[Book of Proverbs|biblical proverb]], "Pride goeth before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall" (which is abbreviated as "Pride goeth before a fall" in [[Book of Proverbs|Proverbs]] 16:18). The "pride that blinds" causes foolish actions against common sense.<ref name="Hollow-2014">{{cite journal |url=https://www.academia.edu/6081830 |title=The 1920 Farrow's Bank Failure: A Case of Managerial Hubris |journal=[[Journal of Management History]] |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=164–178 |publisher=[[Durham University]] |access-date=1 October 2014 |last1=Hollow |first1=Matthew |doi=10.1108/JMH-11-2012-0071 |year=2014 |issn=1751-1348 |archive-date=14 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714204331/https://www.academia.edu/6081830 |url-status=live }}</ref> In political analysis, ''hubris'' is often used to describe how powerful leaders become irrationally self-confident and contemptuous of advice over time, leading them to act impulsively.<ref name="Hollow-2014" />