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One reason pride is cited as the greatest sin is because it's the one that covers for all the rest. When someone has a flaw or problem in their life that they're unable to resolve, it's often their ego and sense of entitlement that is getting in the way. When people are blinded by pride they refuse to accept that they're doing anything wrong. Once you have humility, those blinders are removed and you are able to see all the wrong that you're doing.

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I think Norm Macdonald the stand-up comedian had one of the most profound insights into religion and sin:

"Some people believe that man is divine, like kind of a hippie idea. I can't believe that because I know my own heart, and I know that's not true. Other people believe that we're wretched like the cynics or the atheists would believe we're all just wretched nothingness, just animals, just creatures. I can't believe that. It doesn't make any sense, that we're just beasts. I will say that Christianity has this interesting compromise where we're both divine and wretched, and there's this Middle Man that's the Savior, that through Him we can become divine, but we're born wretched. I kind of like that one, because it sort of makes sense."

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