To: Blind Eye Jones
The Christian God was dead thanks to Nietzsche
Not this again. Nietzsche was descrbing the state of Western Culture at the time. He wasn't saying it was a good thing. The fact is fervent religious belief held much less of a place in the post-Englightenment, 19th century materialist world that Nietzsche was responding to.
33 posted on
10/25/2007 1:20:07 PM PDT by
Borges
34 posted on
10/25/2007 1:24:44 PM PDT by
Non-Sequitur
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To: Borges
He also put that line into the mouth of a Madman. He also regretted he ever wrote it. ;-)
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