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- Nietzsche declared the need for God’s death in order for humans to find liberation in a new intellectual age. He saw Christianity as an obstacle to this liberation. Christianity was a “pathetic” faith that also supposedly produced pathetic creatures in the form of Christians.
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Jun 27, 2016 · Christianity was a “pathetic” faith that also supposedly produced pathetic creatures in the form of Christians. Any creature, Nietzsche believed, who would need belief in God, need prayer, and faith was essentially someone corrupted by the virus of Christianity.
May 11, 2023 · He set out to prove that faith in Jesus Christ brought convincing answers to the questions of modern humanity. Nietzsche had provoked such questions, as had Rudolf Steiner, Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy, Stefan George, Peter Kropotkin, and in later years the propagators of National Socialism.
Only here could Jesus dream of his rainbow and his ladder to heaven on which God descended to man. Everywhere else good weather and sunshine were considered the rule and everyday occurrences. from Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.137, Walter Kaufmann transl. The first Christian.
Feb 25, 2015 · 1844-1900. What did Nietzsche think of his own role? He called himself “the Anti-Christ,” and wrote a book by that title. He offered the following argument for atheism: “I will now disprove the existence of all gods: [1] If there were gods, how could I bear not to be a god? [2] Consequently, there are no gods.” How did he die?
It seems that Nietzsche is not only thinking of 18″ and 19″ century historical criticism of the Bible, in which theology itself takes part. He seems to include theology from the very beginning, insofar as it had attempted to draw from the Gospels an order of life of which everybody could be certain.
Motivated by resentment over his death, the early disciples interpreted the ‘kingdom of God’, by which Jesus meant an inner peace, into a realm after death in which sinners would be punished and the good rewarded. Keywords: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity, Christian moral values, Jews, early Christians, disciples, Jesus Christ. Subject.
In this article concerned with reception history, the author seeks to provide an introduction to the topic by looking at Nietzsche’s general assessment of the Hebrew Bible, his understanding of the history of Israelite religion and his allusions to a number of biblical texts.
