(March 30, 2018 at 3:21 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Well, we should feel ashamed for our wrong doings. And acknowledging that and feeling remorse for it, is humility.
Yes. We should feel ashamed for bad actions (or at least guilty)... but not for our character. I guess I see guilt as always better than shame, and guilt cultures as superior to shame cultures. There's a difference between feeling bad about something bad you did, and hating who you are as a person (and your own soul if you believe in souls). I don't think even God, if I pretend he exists for a second, would want you to be ashamed of your own personality no matter how bad what you did was, only guilty for your behavior and wrongdoing. What do you think? From a religious perspective, surely our body, our minds and even our souls are given to us by god, and so it's wrong to feel ashamed of them no matter how much we become consumed by sin, as at their core from a religious perspective they're ultimately god-given. Surely it is only our choices, from a religious perspective, and from the perspective of people who believe in free will, that we can truly own. What do you think?
