Have you had your Nietzsche, today?

Question

"Faith means not wanting to know what is true."

"So long as the priest, that professional negator, slanderer and poisoner of life, is regarded as a superior type of human being, there cannot be any answer to the question: What is truth?"

"The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, a self-derision, and self-mutilation."

"All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race – before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications."

"The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God."

"There is no devil and no hell. Thy soul will be dead even sooner than thy body: fear therefore nothing any more."

JC's Flip Flops, Who is arguing? Have another drink.

Answer 1

Gesundheit!

Answer 2

Nietzsche is peachy.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
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Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in "another" or "better" life.
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. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that [crucifixion of Jesus Christ]!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form -- the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
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What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth.

Answer 3

Nietzsche was awesome. Imagine what he could have written had he not had his breakdown at the end of the most productive year of his life.


I think of him as the greatest polemicist of all time, and I think he was more optimistic than people tend to give him credit for being. He showed pretty clearly that the framework people thought held up their morals was incorrect. God is dead, so we need another way to think about morality (since our morals don't even really come from God anyway). Perhaps if more people read Nietzsche, then we wouldn't have theists asking where we get our morals several dozen times per day.



After reading the previous post, I'm now seeing Brock Sampson reciting Nietzsche. I think I'm about to have an overload of joyous feeling.

Answer 4

This part is very profound

"Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications."

It's all good, but that part is so true

Answer 5

Nietzsche sure was fond of strawman arguments, wasn't he?

Answer 6

Nietzsche's wife used to beat him. So what's your point?

Appeal to authority, false argument.

Answer 7

Gotta love him, he didn't back down from a fight.

Answer 8

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Answer 9

No.