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Chapter 37 Chapter 02 "Guilty", "Conscience Condemnation" and Others (20)

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History teaches us that the sense of man's debt to the gods did not disappear even after the consanguineous organizational form of the "polity" fell.Just as humans inherited from the tribal aristocrats notions of "good and bad" and their psychological penchant for hierarchy, humans inherited the legacy of tribal and racial gods, as well as their debts. burden and desire to eventually pay off the debt. (The serfs of the populous slaves who received the rituals of their masters, either by force or by submission and by imitation. They became the channel through which these inheritances spread in all directions. ) This sense of indebtedness to the gods has continued to develop for centuries, always with the evolution of man's conception of the gods and his feelings for the gods, and has now reached its peak. (The whole history of race wars, race triumphs, racial reconciliation and integration, everything that happened before all races were finally included in that great integration, is all reflected in the confusion about the origin of the gods, reflected in the confusion about the origin of the gods. Among the legends of their wars, victories, and reconciliations. The march to a world empire was always a march to a world god, and absolutism with its conquest of independent nobles paved the way for some form of monotheism.) The advent of the Christian God, who has been the "highest god" so far, has therefore created the world's most indebtedness.Assuming we have finally entered the reverse movement, we can infer without hesitation from the weakening of belief in the Christian God that people's sense of indebtedness has now correspondingly weakened.Yes, we should not deny the prospect that the total final victory of atheism might liberate man from all his sense of debt to his ancestors, to his original causes.Atheism and a form of "second innocence" belong together in the future.

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