Pride as a moral evil. Why does God hate pride?

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The question is in the title.

So, what is the moral evil of pride? If pride is just a wrong opinion of oneself, something like thinking that “2x2=7”, then it is not a moral crime and it doesn’t deserve to be “hated”? But God (I think) must hate only evil tendencies of our will, not just delusions about world and/or ourselves. So why does He hate pride (high opinion about ourselves?) in us?

P.S. Do not say that every evil is a delusion. It will lead us to nowhere.
 
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Pride is the mother of all sins… it also is the foundation of all other sins. It’s a far cry from loving God and loving neighbour.
 
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12405a.htm
“…it this pre-eminence [St. Thomas Aquinas] takes it in a most formal and complete signification. He understands it to be that frame of mind in which a man, through the love of his own worth, aims to withdraw himself from subjection to Almighty God, and sets at naught the commands of superiors. It is a species of contempt of God and of those who bear his commission. Regarded in this way, it is of course mortal sin of a most heinous sort. Indeed St. Thomas rates it in this sense as one of the blackest of sins. By it the creature refuses to stay within his essential orbit; he turns his back upon God, not through weakness or ignorance, but solely because in his self-exaltation he is minded not to submit. His attitude has something Satanic in it, and is probably not often verified in human beings. A less atrocious kind of pride is that which imples one to make much of oneself unduly and without sufficient warrant, without however any disposition to cast off the dominion of the Creator. This may happen, according to St. Gregory, either because a man regards himself as the source of such advantages as he may discern in himself, or because, whilst admitted that God has bestowed them, he reputes this to have been in response to his own merits, or because he attributes to himself gifts which he has not; or, finally, because even when these are real he unreasonably looks to be put ahead of others.”
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Pride is the foundation of all sins. It is attempting to set oneself up as a god. It is that sin which says “non servum” to God.
 
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