“In the guilt culture, man again is burdened with this tremendous tension over the fact of his sin, his apostasy from God, but instead of moving in terms of this social convention and the sense of shame, he moves in terms of another kind of social convention: guilt. In this case, however, instead of acknowledging his guilt in relationship to God, he pleads, as so many criminals do, guilty to the lesser crime to escape the more serious crime.”

— R. J. Rushdoony