Screenshot from Stephen King's "The Shining" Question: Do you have any advice in the spiritual pride behind the deeply held belief that “God can’t forgive me”? I've dealt with this for years and it's beginning to hit me how prideful it was. Response: Yes, ironically, rejecting the forgiveness of God "because I'm not worthy" is totally prideful but the pride is so often obscured by our self-loathing. We think that if we condemn ourselves that it can't possibly be pride. But what does self-loathing reveal except that the ego has become so deluded that it imagines it has usurped Christ from his throne and his judgment seat and has ...