Daily Rant from Sagacity

On the day when Pres. Obama and his crew fires a CEO of a private company and dictates terms for its continued existence (and the existence of at least one other), I read this in C.S. Lewis' MERE CHRISTIANITY:
Greed may drive men into competition if there is not enough to go round; but the proud man, even when he has got more than he can possibly want, will try to get still more to assert his power. (And further down the same page): For, of course, power is what Pride really enjoys: there is nothing makes a man feel so superior to others as being able to move them about like toy soldiers.
Hmmm

And for my atheist friends: In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that--and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison--you do not know God at all. As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

C.S. Lewis: MERE CHRISTIANITY (Macmillan/New York, 1952) p. 110,111