One pride is worse than any, the religious kind. We are Israelites. We are Judeans. We are Jews. We are Baptists. We are Reformed. We are Methodists. There is always a capital letter. We are The Ones: the right rituals, the right uniforms, the right songs, the right books, the right heroes, the right to judge. But “the Ethiopians are no less important to Me than you are” (9:7).