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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
Ha! My column last week was on guilt - I'm for it! As I look around the world today, it seems to me that there are plenty of people for whom the concept of guilt is entirely foreign. I'll spare y'all the whole column - but I think guilt can be a very good thing.
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I think the Catholic Church misplaces guilt by making a sin of things that I don't believe to be sinful. I still see its lingering effects on my own attitudes. It's a bit like having to shake off an ever present fog. It clears but sometimes it returns out of no where. (And I think it returns from habit, not because it's correct.)
I don't think guilt or shame are positive emotions, even if they do have their places alongside anger and grief.