“But if God does not exist, it follows that communism, or some suitable variant of it, is right.”
I slowly came to the opposite conclusion—even if there were no God, it would be much better for humanity to act as though there were.
After the French Revolution, there was a lot of thought along just those lines.
“I slowly came to the opposite conclusion—even if there were no God, it would be much better for humanity to act as though there were.”
Nietzsche also understood that if God is dead then we have to invent a god, a superman. But as we’ve learned supermen are no replacement for God. If one can’t be a believer, perhaps being agnostic is the next best thing, at least in the back of your mind the possibility of God is still there, and you act accordingly.