Posted on 12/02/2016 4:37:59 AM PST by Kaslin
Friedrich Nietzsche, through his created philosophical persona Zarathustra, declared, "God is dead." Zarathustra said this to a Christian sage as he descended a mountain.
The idea of descending to humankind with a great revelation is an ancient theme. Moses in 1500 B.C. descended from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments to reveal the moral law of Almighty God. Plato's philosopher-king descended into the cave to tell the inhabitants that they were mistaking shadows on the wall for true reality, which ultimately was contained in the Forms or Ideas from which all things and behavior emanated. And then, approximately 450 years later, Christ descended from heaven to teach mercy, love, compassion, and application of the moral law by grace through His death on the Cross and resurrection.
With the statement "God is dead" given as revealed truth (sic), the moral law as found in the Ten Commandments was being declared by Nietzsche as shattered, irrelevant. He was stating that the world of spirit was not the essence of the world. And he was rejecting the great moral teachings of Jesus, which expanded the truths of the Ten Commandments and made a new, non-legalistic basis for morality possible in our fallen and sinful world.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Nietzsche’s logic was perfectly good. His starting assumptions were faulty.
A very good article by E. Jeffrey Ludwig. Thanks very much for posting, Kaslin.
Marxists, Mohammedans and their minions & morons ALERT!
Every time they try to hold Nietzsche up as some sort of intellect I get ill.
Can we just face the fact that Nietzsche was a pretty F’ed up guy.
He was raised by a father that was a pastor, therefore Nietzsche grew up surrounded by religion and all the trimmings that come with it (i.e. morals, values, and traditions) — So his life would have been one centered around “being good and being moral,” as raised by a Lutheran pastor.
It was during the Franco-Prussian War where most believe that he contracted syphilis from a brothel that he frequented quite often. The syphilis went untreated until his death, however, many also suggest that that is also when he developed a taste for alcohol and became alcoholic.
So, consider the life of a man that was raised by a father with great religious views and Nietzsche, from birth was taught the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, then infect him with a sexually transmitted disease that affects the mind and the body and add alcohol and then add in that Nietzsche also became a homosexual (some suspect) during some point his life and you have a man that MUST denounce that there is God, he has to denounce that there is God or he knew he was going to suffer for all of his sins and not living the life that he grew up with and certainly not the way his father had raised him.
Nietzsche wasn’t a great philosopher, he was a man with a sexually transmitted disease, suffering from guilt, shame, and remorse for not living the life that he had grown up with.
He had to kill God in order to try and find some shred of peace in his life before he died...That isn’t new and sure as hell doesn’t make him a great philosopher.
It makes him a dead homosexual who died of an untreated sexually transmitted disease and more than likely alcoholism.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Later
Didn’t help that his sister, who edited and published much of his work was probably more messed up than ol’ Friedrich....
That’s why any debate over logic must begin with the premises, not the conclusions.
Thank you for such a well put description of a fallen man.
Bravo for Truth!
In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich’s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a ‘racially pure’ colony in Paraguay together with a band of blond-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later, Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of Nueva Germania to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous adventure locating the survivors, while also tracing the colorful history of Elisabeth’s return to Europe, where she inspired the mythical cult of her brother’s philosophy and later became a mentor to Hitler. Brilliantly researched and mordantly funny, this is an illuminating portrait of a forgotten people and of a woman whose deep influence on the twentieth century can only now be fully understood.
http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/forgotten-fatherland-9781408838150/
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