Pride
When a bunch of UUs recently got arrested while protesting in Arizona (see Standing on the Side of Love or the UUA for more details), I immediately posted on the Facebook pages of those I know, "I'm proud of you." Meanwhile, over at The Chaliceblog , "Chalicechick" was asking, "I get that people get arrested protesting with differing levels of justification for it. What I don't get is why we're all so proud of ourselves about it. It seems meaningless at best." It's a good question. Pride is a mixed bag. We have pride in things that we feel good about in ourselves or others, things that were hard to achieve, obstacles that were overcome. And yet we also hear that pride is deadly sin, and pride goeth before a fall. I've wondered about other people's misplaced "pride" in different things, and I've seen others wondering at pride I or friends of mine have had over different issues. For example: I'm no...