Before long guilt-ridden bankers were commissioning great works of religious art in the hope that they might after death escape the damnation that the scriptures foretold.
But that does not change the issue of the centuries-long guilt of Christians.
My life-long guilt and repression, however, split my selfhood into wildly opposing polarities: the asexual, mysterious vault crammed with secrets to appease my Muslim family, and the hedonistic, sexually adventurous man who danced and drank and made mad, intense love.
After long denying guilt, he acknowledged in a 2004 autobiography that he bet on Reds games.
At 30 minutes long, 'Modern Guilt' is a short and sweet treat.
Countering suggestions in some quarters that Germans have wallowed too long in guilt over the crimes of earlier generations, Mr. Brender said evidence showed that young people still wanted and needed more information about their past.
He asserted that we were in an "outright bloody war against tyranny, intolerance and theocracy," and he called for going to war "hard, long, without guilt, apology or respite until our enemies are no more".
He too absolved Long of guilt and blame.
Studies show that teenagers who fail exams have an increased risk of depression as adults, while athletes who lose can feel long-term guilt and humiliation.
And Russell does leave behind a lot of admirers, including his mother, Gerda, another woman for whom a long-festering guilt is quickened by his death.
The trail that led to his arrest began with a telephone tip to the Miami police last July that unraveled a tale of long-buried guilt, a troubled conscience, strange coincidences and a witness's memory of a young man with an ophthalmic condition called wandering eye.
