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Chapter 38 Chapter 02 "Guilty", "Conscience Condemnation" and Others (21)

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I shall say briefly here about the relation of the concepts of "guilt" and "duty" to religious hypotheses.I have deliberately left out the moralization process that these concepts undergo, which would bring us back to the question of conscience, and certainly to the entanglement of condemnation of conscience with the concept of God.From the conclusion of my previous section, it seems that such a process of moralization has never occurred, and in view of this, it seems right now to stop talking about these concepts, because the premise of these concepts-to our "creditor", that is, God Faith has crumbled.The scary thing is that the reality is far from that.In fact, with its moralization of the concepts of debt and obligation, with its efforts to push these concepts back into the realm of conscience, one attempted to reverse the direction of the development just described, or at least to bring it to a halt.Now is the time to pour cold water on the prospect of paying off debts once and for all; now is the time to dismiss and bounce back unrealistic attention to iron;

Now those concepts of liabilities and obligations should turn - and to whom?Of course, the "debtor" should be targeted first, because the condemnation of conscience is currently taking root in him, eroding him, teasing him, and spreading in breadth and depth like a cancer, and finally makes him conclude that: because the debt cannot be repaid Yes, so the atonement is also futile, thus forming the idea that sins cannot be redeemed, that is, the concept of "eternal punishment".But in the end, the spearhead was aimed at the "creditor", and now people began to curse the origin of human beings, the origin of human race, the ancestors of human beings (such as "Adam", "original sin", "non-free will"), or curse the nature , because it makes man, because it collects evil (the so-called "curse of nature"), and even curses existence that leaves only a vacuum of value (nihilistic distance from existence, longing for nothingness, or longing for its "opposite", that is, another an “existence”—Buddhism and its ilk), until we are suddenly confronted with the paradoxical, horrifying first aid.Tortured humanity finds a moment of consolation in this Christian trick: God sacrificed himself for man's debt.God paid himself with himself, and only God can pay what man himself cannot pay - the obligee voluntarily sacrifices himself for his debtor, out of love (is it believable?), out of love for his debtor Love……

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