Pride, as all believers know, is the deadliest of sins - it really is the worst, because it leads a person to do all manner of evil in defense of pride. The other day I linked to an IM conversation between a Moslem in the middle east and an American Moslem and one of the reasons the middle eastern person gave for fighting is pride - they are wounded, deeply, in their pride because the Moslem world is such a complete basket case, even though - allegedly - God has granted Moslems the authority to rule the entire world. It is easy to slip from this pride to a desire to believe that the only reason you are miserable is because others have worked with Satan to thwart you and destroy your life.
The only eventual cure for all this is for the Moslem world to humble themselves and realise (sic) that they have much to learn - and much work to do - in order to make their society the equal of others'. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be able to get to this point until the Moslem world - or, at least that part of it which most determinedly fights - suffers some rather intense military humiliaton at the hands of western civilization. -- Victor Davis Hanson, getting down with the real reason for this war. Find the rest at Blogs for Bush
Or, we might look at it this way:
Pride, as all believers know, is the deadliest of sins - it really is the worst, because it leads a person to do all manner of evil in defense of pride. One of the reasons many Americans in favor of the war the American President thrust upon us is pride. We are wounded, deeply, in our pride because Usama bin Laden took down the Word Trade Center, hit the Pentagon and planned who knows what other horrors -- even though - allegedly - God has granted the United States the authority to bring democracy to entire world. It is easy to slip from this pride to a desire to believe that the only reason you are miserable is because others have worked with Satan to thwart you and destroy your life.
The only eventual cure for all this is for the United States to humble itself and realize that we have much to learn - and much work to do - in order to make our society the equal of others'. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be able to get to this point until the United States - or, at least that part of it which most determinedly fights - suffers some rather intense military humiliaton at the hands of the Moslem world.
