I'm rereading the Georges Bataille book, ON NIETZSCHE, with an introduction by Sylvere Lotringer. He says: "There is Christianity," Bataille argued, "a will NOT to be guilty, a will to locate the guilt outside the Church, to find a transcendence in man in relation to guilt. " This accounted for the church's inability to deal with Evil, except as a threat coming from the outside. Doing the Church justice "in total hostility," Bataille assumed guilt and anguish as his own, daring Christianity to experience Christ's sacrifice as the equivocal expression of Evil."
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This is a hell of a good point. I hadn't thought about it this way.
I will make a video on this later, because it relates to identity politics -- a kind of "church" or "churches" -- as well.
I look forward to it. So if the question is "why didn't the Church take decisive action to rid the priesthood of predators," the answer might be "because the church is supposed to be the answer to evil, not the cause of it."
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