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As a Christian, I can agree on the guilt part- in a sense. It's really guilt mixed with gratitude. Here we are, these horribly unworthy shitstains. We were once beautiful and perfect, but we lost both qualities, and did so entirely through our own fault.

Yet God has deigned to restore us once again to our former position. We are once more beautiful and perfect, but even though we ourselves initiated our fall, our rising was all God- or, at least, God in the body of Man. We've done nothing to merit or deserve the great blessings that have been bestowed on us.

So then, maybe guilt isn't the right word. Shame? Bashfulness? I think those are better.

>>5291936
You know, Harris is actually right about religious moderation. All of the truly religious are extremists in one way or another. They may be peaceful and nonthreatening- a Franciscan monk is no danger to anybody, for example- but they are extremists nonetheless.

>>5146788
Hegel is just Augustine without God.