Nietzche: Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul

[angellous_evangellous]

I love to read Nietzsche. IMHO, he is one of the brightest examples of a human being, with an amazing mind. He makes most of us look like (in the words of Severus Snape) sentimental children, forever whining about how bitterly unfair [our] lives have been," as we try to interact with an infinitesimally less significant amount of knowledge and wisdom than N himself did... and this mass of sophisticated intellectual goodness is then filtered to us through N's own genius.

IMHO, most of the advances - if not all - in Christian theology and philosophy come from interactions from the "outside." That is, leading members of the church, be they ministers or church theologians, have not made the contributions to theology by the study of Scripture alone. They certainly were not terribly excited about changing dead theologies or especially practices of the church until they were forced to by evolving social conditions brought about by the re-reading of classical philosophy in the 16th century and the subsequent longing for human economic, social, and religious freedom.

N's great contribution to my thinking is that he inspires me to apply religion in a way that causes the least impact in a person's right to be. That is, a person should be able to make choices freely without the threat of religion, but use religion as a means only of enriching the human experience as an engagement of free choice. Tempered by this, the Christian is free to attach the message of the wrath of God as it applies to that which inhibits constructive human expression... and this expression is best defined by the tenants of humanism. We recognize as sin the actions defined by humanism as negative human expression: the denial of human rights, murder, stealing, placing restraint on expression exclusively for religious reasons, and so on.

[lunamoth]

But you are forgetting one most important question.


"Would Nietzche have liked Willie's music?"

[angellous_evangellous]

Originally Posted by lunamoth

But you are forgetting one most important question.


"Would Nietzche have liked Willie's music?"

That's only because it's too obvious. Of course N would love Willie!

[Sunstone]

Nietzsche's philosophy is no good for you. Otherwise he would not have gone insane.









(Just kidding)

[lunamoth]

Originally Posted by angellous_evangellous

That's only because it's too obvious. Of course N would love Willie!

Of course!

But seriously, Nietzche opened a window for a stifled Christianity...100 years ago.

[angellous_evangellous]

Originally Posted by lunamoth

Of course!

But seriously, Nietzche opened a window for a stifled Christianity...100 years ago.

Ha! And there hasn't been a comparable mind since! His criticisms of Christianity are still valid, btw.

N's genius - so far - is timeless.

[Darkwater]

God is dead,so be the god.

I love thus spake Zarathustra,every part of the village of the pied cow,Neitche displays wonderful Hermatic human template thought.

Right now my favourite bit is how to overcome gravity,where he enters a pathway into his astral domain.

In truth he does shoot himself in the foot somewhat,as you would expect from his unrelenting attack,attack attack attack style.Even when he does stumble upon great truths he sometimes does attack these which can lead to misinterpretation by him.He is great though flawed,Socrates is the daddy(goes to look for Socratic thread)

Namaste

DW

[Victor]

Originally Posted by angellous_evangellous

IMHO, most of the advances - if not all - in Christian theology and philosophy come from interactions from the "outside."

You barely figured this out?

I couldn't count the number of early fathers that read things from the "outside".