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Humility is a necessary virtue for Christians, but cannot be a first step towards becoming a Christian.
Indeed humility in the absence of Christianity may be extremely dangerous under modern conditions.
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In a world of moral inversions, to be humble may mean to accept the world's evaluations - because to reject them would seem arrogant, prideful.
When the world's evaluations are evil, humility may accept evil, submit to evil - or at least go-along-with evil.
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Why? Because humility is relational - we can only be humble in relation to something, or to someone.
Whether humility is good or evil depends on who we are humble towards.
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So, it is dangerous, it is counter-productive, it is in effect anti-Christian to call for greater humility in the absence of Christian faith.
And humility cannot be the first step for a modern Christian convert.
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