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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (10599)	4/5/2001 8:01:58 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 82486

OK, I should have said the other 5... Mind you, as a capitalist, am I allowed to count avarice as a sin? <g>

To: Lane3 who wrote (10599)	4/6/2001 11:05:06 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Do you know why pride is a sin? I'm into pride "All other sins cry out "I have a need!" Pride is the only sin that cries out, "I need nothing. I can manage!" And that is exactly why God hates it". Perhaps you have to consider whether you have humility. If so then it would mitigate against this. The minister that supplied the above stated that the sin is "inordinate self esteem" and offered the following relative traits. selfish............ostentatious...........haughty egotistical...........vain..........conceited.....loves self pompous.........arrogant.....immodest....contentious narrow-minded......opinionated.....loud boastful.......materialistic.....demanding....moody critical...................reluctant to accept criticism highly competitive....desires always to be in control refusal to admit one's weaknesses............showy inlated sense of one's abilities or opinion value one unable to accept God's forgiveness Quite a spectrum.