I was born in a Christian family and I had a six religions before I met Nietzsche.
Friedrich Nietzsche is a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment's secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead,” in a way that determined the agenda for many of Europe's most celebrated intellectuals after his death.
Nietzsche vehemently rejected the idea of God because it is “ANTI-LIFE”. The belief in God is premised on the belief of Absolute character of God. It is being itself- the CREATOR. So according to believers there is God that lies behind the flux of things. That God alone is the Being that remains the Same all throughout the decay of life and the world. For Nietzsche, the question is not really the existence of God but sociological: why the Hell does people want a God? Or, to put it bluntly: What kind of people or society would believe tenaciously to a fictitious META-PHYSICAL (BEYOND THE PHYSICAL) BEING?Nietzsche found the answer in the social psychological character of SLAVES! The slaves cannot accept life and its sufferings. They tend to invent META-PHYSICAL beings like angels, demons, souls and God and their dwellings (Hades, Hell, Heaven). These fictitious entities are supposed to be more real than life, more important than the body, the earth, and food we eat. You become A CHRISTIAN ONCE YOU ACCEPT THERE ARE TWO WORLDS; THE AFTERLIFE WHICH IS MORE REAL AND TRUE AS AGAINST THE MATERIAL WORLD THAT IS FLEETING AND CORRUPTIBLE. What kind of people would want incorruptibility? immortality? permanence? These qualities are the opposites of life! So those who defend these fictitious entities, cannot accept life! They want a continuation in eternity, a compensation for their inability to take revenge for the injustices committed against them.
Slaves are REACTIVE: THEY HATE EVERYTHING DIFFERENT FROM THEM! They always find someone to be blamed for sufferings! Not satisfied, they invoke GOD as their defenders against the cruelty of life! They are like children who do not want to be left by their parents! God is your father? You hope that God sees us all and treat as equally! Democracy of slaves! No wonder that Martin Luther said: Resist no tyrants! Why tyrants? Because tyranny only harms the body but it doesn’t kill the soul! That is the consequence when we embrace the distinction between THIS WORLD (LIFE) AND AFTER-LIFE (HEAVEN). We easily negate LIFE. We do not enjoy the “little pleasures” and sins in this world because we are looking forward to the Eternal Egg up there! How can we see our way into the world when we keep on looking up like delusional citizens? Nietzsche loved life so much that he wages a total war against those slavish students who would die for their God but would not even die for themselves! It is striking that you are willing to fight for your faith but you could not even fight for your nation! Your God has become fetish that allows you to enjoy this world as if you are not enjoying it. Traitors of this life! But isn’t Nietzsche critique also an interpretation? Nietzsche anticipated your rebuttal: “Supposing that this (will to power) also is only interpretation- he writes, “and you will be eager enough to make this objection?-well, so much the better” (Beyond Good and Evil 22). So does he contradict himself? He replies: “ I’ll tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star” You embrace God because you fear chaos. You cannot be a dancing star!
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