Free Will vs Predestination

Alexandria Melnikoff

Mr. King

World Literature

7 March 2014

Pride’s Wrath On Society: Is Humility the Best Cure?

Living in a society where appearances, reputation, and monetary value are held higher than morals and integrity, humans are misguided and fall short of their relationship with God. “Successful individuals have clawed, scratched, connived, manipulated, or swindled their way up the corporate ladder” (Landry). Pride is the ultimate destruction of our lives. Remove the anger, conflict, fear, and arrogance, and humility will come easier to us. Humility does not worry about appearance. In today’s society, pride undermines all of our relationships, humans have a harder time in admitting our mistakes, and there is a never-ending battle between God, Satan’s influence, and our pride.

Between misguided athletes and explicit, misleading music mankind struggles most with the deadly sin, pride. Pride is the root of all sin and it slowly eats away at our morals, faith, and relationship with God.

Athletes can fall into pride’s trap by excessive self-exaltation and lack of judgment to an extent where it destroys their own personal morals and beliefs. Constant pressure from a flawed society feeds the flame of pride as athletes believe that the only way they feel successful and valuable is through superiority. Coaches become abusive and forcefully control their athletes in order to force a better performance. Many athletes define pride as that “inner discipline, that inner voice to just be the hardest working guy on the field- to give everything you can to your team, to not be selfish player, to fulfill your role, to fight for your teammates, to be a great leader but not only on the field but off the field” (Aicinena). If a person is truly challenged then superior performances will result. Unfortunately, parents tend to meddle in affairs of coaches and abuse of their own children in order to have athletic success. Parents have a desire to credit themselves...