XXII. The Error of Free WillThe essay “The Four Great Errors” in Twilight of the Idols catalogues four efforts concerning causality. The error of “free will” is a foul artifice of the theologians. Its aim is to impart ‘responsibility” for one’s actions which can only be atoned through the priest. The search for responsibility generally is the result of wishing to judge and punish specific actions. Thus the “will” was created by ancient priests to allow for themselves or God the right to punish. So that every act could be judged for its guilt, every act had to have its origin located in consciousness. The modern “immoralists” are trying to cleanse the world of the concept of guilt. Naturally, it is the priests and their concept of a “moral world-order” that pose the greatest obstacles to this attempt to cure humanity of its sickness.
