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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:MORALITY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS \nFrom “Mere Christianity” by C.S. Lewis \n◊◊◊ \nHuman beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them \nby their moral choices… When a man who has been perverted from his youth and \ntaught that cruelty is the right thing\, does some tiny little kindness\, or refrains from \nsome cruelty he might have committed\, and thereby\, perhaps\, risks being sneered \nat by his companions\, he may\, in God’s eyes\, be doing more than you and I would \ndo if we gave up life itself for a friend… \nSome of us who seem quite nice people may\, in fact\, have made so little use of \na good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom \nwe regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had \nbeen saddled with the psychological outfit\, and then with the bad upbringing\, and \nthen with the power\, say\, of Himmler? That is why Christians are told not to judge. \nWe see only the results which a man’s choices make out of his raw material. But \nGod does not judge him on the raw material at all\, but on what he has done with it. \nMost of the man’s psychological make-up is probably due to his body: when his \nbody dies all that will fall off him\, and the real central man\, the thing that chose\, \nthat made the best or the worst out of this material\, will stand naked. All sorts of \nnice things which we thought our own\, but which were really due to a good \ndigestion\, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to \ncomplexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then\, for the first time\, see \nevery one as he really was. There will be surprises… \nPeople often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God \nsays\, “If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you\, and if you don’t I’ll do the other \nthing.”… I would much rather say that every time you make a choice you are \nturning the central part of you\, the part of you that chooses\, into something a little \ndifferent from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole\, with all your \ninnumerable choices\, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing \neither into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that \nis in harmony with God\, and with other creatures\, and with itself\, or else into one \nthat is in a state of war and hatred with God\, and with its fellow-creatures\, and with \nitself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is it is joy and peace and \nknowledge and power. To be the other means madness\, horror\, idiocy\, rage\, \nimpotence\, and eternal loneliness… \nOne man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands\, and \nanother so placed that however angry he gets he will only be laughed at. But the \nlittle mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to \nhimself which\, unless he repents\, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage \nnext time he is tempted\, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it. \nEach of them\, if he seriously turns to God\, can have that twist in the central man \nstraightened out again: each is\, in the long run\, doomed if he will not. The bigness \nor smallness of the thing\, seen from the outside\, is not what really matters… \nWhen a man is getting better\, he understands more and more clearly the evil \nthat is still left in him. When a man is getting worse\, he understands his own \nbadness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a \nthoroughly bad man thinks he is all right… Good people know about both good and \nevil: bad people do not know about either.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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