Monday Sermon
Scientists: The Human Ego Is Always Right
In this way, it resembles a totalitarian state
If you’ve read about Hitler’s last hours in the bunker with Eva Braun, you know that even after murdering millions of jews, and destroying the German state, the dictator literally stuck to his guns. He and Eva were right. The rest of the world was wrong. They joined together in holy matrimony, supposedly so they could be together in some more just afterlife. Then Hitler committed his last two murders. He killed Eva, then he killed himself.
Evidence that Hitler thought he was right? He was still blaming something he called “International Jewry” for everything, the whole disaster of World War II. And, he wrote this in his final statement:
“I die with a happy heart, aware of the immeasurable deeds and achievements of our soldiers at the front, our women at home, the achievements of our farmers and workers and the work, unique in history, of our youth who bear my name.”
Pretty awful stuff.
Granted, our own ego is capable of a small dose of honest self-criticism. We’re not Hitler. But we’re no prize either. That’s because by definition our ego is the ENTITY which we trust to guide us through our lives. If the entity we trusted were to admit how…
