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Hegel's Self-Consciousness

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Is Hegel's Theology of Unhappy Consciousness?

Christianity is a position that's in love with its own unhappiness. And Matt hates it when I say this to him as a critique. Like, you love your own misery. And he absolutely hates that. So the way to connect with this unchangeable is through some thing that can mediate the relation for me. The mediator is the priest for Hegel. He even talks about it explicitly here.

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