Pride, one of the 7 deadly sins

We have talked about the positive way of thinking about pride, and it seams to make sense according to old philosophers who considered that pride was an important quality to reach success in our personal and professional life.

However, we cannot avoid the fact that pride is one of the seven deadly sins known in Christianity, also known as the capital vices, or cardinal sins. But many religions also consider pride as a forbidden sin.

In Christianity, seven are an abomination unto the Lord. The seven capital vices are : Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride. The Roman Catholic Church also recognizes seven holy virtues which correspond to each of the seven deadly sins : Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Forgiveness, Kindness, Humility.

Judaism shares the Old Testament with Christianity, but it is not known as the Old Testament, but under the name of Written Torah or the Tanakh. There are 606 other commandments, called Mitzvot, in addition to the 7 deadly sins. Also, they are not listed as sins, but more as statements and principles of law and ethnics contained in the Torah.

Unlike Judaism, Islam sees sin, not as a commandment, or like a principle, but more like anything that goes against the commands of Allah (God). A list of 70 sins that are interpreted by the canon of the Coran.

Hindu, Buddhist and Shinto also have their view of sin. For example, Buddhist ethics is founded upon compassion for all beings and upon the duty to cause their happiness ant to prevent their suffering. These are simply what Buddhism recognizes as a natural principle of Karma, better understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect.

But religion is not all. Atheists simply make a distinction between what is right or what is wrong. Sin has a strong  religious connotation, so atheist just call it a moral or ethical code.