There is no such thing as natural shame. According to the Bible, it was the “forbidden fruit” that we would not let go of. But a more obvious interpretation is: we wanted to find the evil in the world. Rather than keep refining modern ethics that do just that: distinguish between good and evil, let’s stop doing that. Let’s learn to live well beyond good and evil and try to get rid of shame. How do we get rid of shame?The cynical way to get rid of shame forever, is to stop distinguishing between good and evil.
Here: an example of the usual bullshit of how original sin is constructed.
How to Get Rid of the Original Sin
Following Pauline Christian doctrine, we must first of all acknowledge our guilt. Every Catholic Mass begins with this acknowledgement of guilt:
I confess to almighty God
The Confíteor Deo in English
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
And exactly this way we continue to do exactly the work with which we have excluded ourselves from the Garden of Eden. (At least this responsibility we want to take over, that no God has punished us, but that the exclusion from the paradise was completely alone the consequence of our action, namely to look for the evil.) This satanic exercise has nothing to do with the message of the Jewish cynic Jesus. In the Bible, it is Satan who wants to prove to God that people, for example Job, are evil. So if you are a Protestant and believe in the heavy guilt of original sin and want to get rid of it, get rid of the shame, get rid of the guilt. But as long as you remain a Protestant, you will of course reject that far from you, that’s clear. And the words of Jesus will rush past you like everything else he said, forcing you to make a decision: either follow Jesus or follow the churches.:
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven
Luke 6:37
One cannot be more clearly against modern ethics. Jesus defends here the cynical ethics with the goal of the Eudaimonia, beyond good and evil. Today, the search for evil is the natural business of the many ethics committees that are currently sprouting everywhere like poisonous mushrooms..
To say it again clearly: the original sin can be derived neither from the Tanach (the “Old” Testament, already the term is anti-Semitic, however), nor from the gospels. It is an invention of the Satanist Paul and was formulated by his successor (Paul’s, not Jesus’ successor) Augustine. Jesus was a Jew and remained a Jew. He taught the opposite of an “original sin”. He did not die for our sins. The first “Christians” also remained Jews. Jews do not know original sin. Islam also does not know original sin. “Christians” commit blasphemy by referring to Jesus. They are satanists.
Forget the churches, do not forget God
II know that some readers are annoyed when I keep talking about God. Why God? Why the idea of a divine nature? Isn’t it enough that we see nature as neutral? Haven’t I heard of the naturalistic fallacy? Shouldn’t I distinguish between nature/world as it is and nature/world as it should be?
Read carefully: of course I do not expect praise from the pew. After all, the Christian slave morality has led us into the misery from which we want to get out. When I speak of God, then of the quite exact opposite of the idol before which the Pauline Christians fall down.
But in an assumed neutral nature, a neutral world, you too are only neutral. And a self-realization is thus at best nihilistic. But no matter if existentialists or socialists: they all cannot allow self-realization, but have to improve themselves,you and the world. Without ethics they would perish. So they need the evil to construct the good against it. When God created the world, he sat back contentedly and said, “Behold, all is well”. Then Adam and Eve came and were tempted to look for evil in the Garden of Eden. They found it: in themselves. And were ashamed.
Self-realization instead of self-improvement is only possible in a meaningful good universe. If the name “God” was driven out of you by the godless hypocritical parsons, then call it just by the name of your beloved one or your beloved ones on a trial basis. Maybe you discover your telos in serving your deified ones.
Self-realization and obedience
What people are also more ashamed of today than at any time in human history is when they are willing to surrender, to serve, the people with whom they have fallen immortally1Quite telling: My translation tool Deepl suggests “madly in love with” as a translation for the German “unsterblich”. Immortality is thus understood as a madness. After all, isn’t that the opposite of self-realization? Shouldn’t it rather be called self-surrender, selflessness even? On the contrary, it is trust in your inclinations, which arise from your self. There is no reason to be ashamed of your inclinations. Get rid of the shame of loving immortally. Don’t you want to become immortal?
This shame, too, is a consequence of the assumed malice, or at best “neutrality,” of the world against which you must assert yourself or into which you must place yourself as “equal.” Everyone is worth the same. Isn’t that what human rights say? But we see our beautiful world hierarchically. We are not ashamed of our power as little as the power of others we love. We like to obey those we idolize, that is how we obey our inclinations, that is how we practice parrhesia, that is how our self-realization looks like.
So we knock on the gates of the Garden of Eden and promise never again to seek evil and thus never again to sink into shame. Naked and beautiful we stand there. And do not know the right way. For the path is created as we walk, practicing and celebrating our only virtue: Parrhesia.
- 1Quite telling: My translation tool Deepl suggests “madly in love with” as a translation for the German “unsterblich”. Immortality is thus understood as a madness.