LEH 355 H02W 50910
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Destiny of Christianity. -- Christianity came into
existence in order to lighten the heart; but now it has first to burden the
heart so as afterwards to be able to lighten it. Consequently it shall perish.
Nietzsche
This quote is from Nietzsche.
Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25
August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He wrote several texts on religion, morality,
culture and mention some critiques about them. Nietzsche is well known
as a nihilist who is a man who
judges that the real world ought not to be, and that the world as it
ought to be does not exist. So he does not believe in Christians, that is why
he wrote the sentence "God is dead".
According to me, by this quote, Nietzsche means the first role of
Christianity was to lighten the heart, to bring people that was on the wrong
track to the good one. But now, Christianity has first make our heart sad
before we to make us become happy, trustfully with God, therefore we should
banish it. In other words, he called
Christianity “the religion of pity” in the sense that Christianity may cause us
some tonic emotions which will affect vitality and can lead to a depression.
This lack of strength will affect sincerely our life and get worse. Therefore to avoid suffering and getting depressed one day
because of that religion, we should just banish it. So "God is dead" means "God is dead", forget about him, and let him rest
in peace if you do not want to have a broken heart one day.
I specially choose that quote
because this course deal about nihilist, and we all also know that Nietzsche is
one nihilism. I would like by this paragraph to emphasis the relation between
the nihilism character of Nietzsche and the Christians. A nihilism in other word is a person who does not
believe in anything. Nietzsche
exactly does not believe in Christians and claimed that the Christian faith as practiced
was not a proper representation of Jesus' teachings, as it forced people merely
to believe in the way of Jesus but not to act as Jesus did, in particular his
example of refusing to judge people, something that Christians had constantly
done the opposite of. Therefore it is a religion of pity.
I disagree where you said "christain is a religion of pity," and also not every christians judge.
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