The Three Humiliations

From ancient times, humans have been thinking several wrong suppositions. We tend to think that we ourselves are the center of everything, letting our Honour and Pride to grow and pretending we are a special kind of animal who has more capacities and unique abilities which make us different from other animals, establishing our perfection in spite of other kind of circumtances.

First of all, in the book we find the first humiliation: the works of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler (the Earth, was removed from the center of the universe). This humiliation was really important, it demonstrated us that we are not the center of everything and instead we move around a star.

Secondly, Darwin explained that we are not the perfect image of God, neither created by Him. He explained that we are the result of continue genetic mutations. The Ego and beliefs of what we contempled as Real, were dumpted down and proved incorrect. This means that several pilars of human thinking hd to be substituted now by new ones, radical ones.

The third one was from Freud, who induced us to see how our unconscious impulses found ways to manipulate our conscious. Signifying that from now on people could be informed that theology in general was not as we pictured it.

In all humiliations we learned that we are not what we think we are. We are what we do not wish to be, even if we reject it. I think we shouldn't stereotype ourselves as God's image, but part of God itself, it could be more abstract and not so literal.