Guilt seems to be the quintessentially religious emotion. But Bataille does not want to retain in in service of servitude, but rather in support of power.
Think about how religious guilt can have a capacity to relate you directly to the universe. You feel like the whole universe will stand or collapse on the basis of your personal decisions. It creates a temporary (or perhaps permanent) overinflating of the sense of self-importance, but it does so in a way that can improve the situation by making everything much weighter, more profound and more meaningful than it would be if we just saw the world in terms of our material interests.
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