A Christian must avoid unhealthy religiosity: both a feeling of superiority over others because of one's qualities, and also a feeling of inferiority because of one's sin. Complexity is one thing, humility is another; Despair is one thing, and repentance is another. One day a lay psychiatrist came to me and began to condemn Christianity because, as he said, it causes a guilt complex and depression in people. I told him that I agree that some Christians, both through their own fault and the fault of others, develop a guilt complex. "But you, in turn," I told him, "must agree that non-believers are susceptible to a much more terrible disease - pride. And while religious guilt complexes near Christ are overcome through repentance and confession, the pride of the laity living far from Christ is in no way cured. "Porphyry as the venerable Besoclivit.

A Christian must avoid unhealthy religiosity: both a feeling of superiority over others because of one's qualities, and also a feeling of inferiority because of one's sin. Complexity is one thing, humility is another; Despair is one thing, and repentance is another. One day a lay psychiatrist came to me and began to condemn Christianity because, as he said, it causes a guilt complex and depression in people. I told him that I agree that some Christians, both through their own fault and the fault of others, develop a guilt complex. "But you, in turn," I told him, "must agree that non-believers are susceptible to a much more terrible disease - pride. And while religious guilt complexes near Christ are overcome through repentance and confession, the pride of the laity living far from Christ is in no way cured. "Porphyry as the venerable Besoclivit.