Superbia

When man at the peak of his life, intelligence and eloquence, insists he is "god" for himself, be subject to none other than himself and blatantly rejects his Creator and Redeemer, what can we say other than he is necessarily doomed at the lowest point of life for he's fallen prey to one of the seven deadly sins. Of which is in fact the most deadly one, namely superbia or pride.

As a learner, one can really learn from anyone or anything even including from the notorious history of Lucifer. It was indeed pride, excessive love of self, desire to compete with God, that resulted in his fall from heaven and transformation into Satan. Perhaps this is why pride then becomes acknowledged as the most serious of all the seven deadly sins originating from the father of lie himself. Which unsurprisingly turned out later to be the same sin that caused the first stain to contaminate the whole mankind through Eve and Adam.

The question now is: Shall we want to learn from history? Or we would rather be running around aimlessly in circles down the thousands of years of civilisation in full, active increasing openmindedness yet obliviously succumbed to a lethal consequence that we should have otherwise been able to avoid? Well, whatever happened to man saying he is the most rational creature? (EJ)