NIETZSCHE: aforism for this Sunday

Dutch_Cactus


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Message Posted:
15/04/2011 20:53

Christianity as antiquity.-- When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday morning we ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This, for a jew, crucified two thousand years ago, who said he was God's son? The proof of such a claim is lacking. Certainly the Christian religion is an antiquity projected into our times from remote prehistory; and the fact that the claim is believed - whereas one is otherwise so strict in examining pretensions - is perhaps the most ancient piece of this heritage. A god who begets children with a mortal woman; a sage who bids men work no more, have no more courts, but look for the signs of the impending end of the world; a justice that accepts the innocent as a vicarious sacrifice; someone who orders his disciples to drink his blood; prayers for miraculous interventions; sins perpetrated against a god, atoned for by a god; fear of a beyond to which death is the portal;

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Dutch_Cactus


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Message Posted:
15/04/2011 20:54

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the form of the cross as a symbol in a time that no longer knows the function and ignominy of the cross -- how ghoulishly all this touches us, as if from the tomb of a primeval past! Can one believe that such things are still believed?



from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s. 405, R.J. Hollingdale transl.

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
15/04/2011 21:02

Re : Msgs 1&2,



DC, may I ask you ( out of interest): do you read Nietzsche in German?

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
15/04/2011 21:12

Msg 3

It's not DC, he hates double ID's and wouldn't lower himself Mien Kampf!



Richard

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
15/04/2011 21:13

Sorry, should read 'Mein'.



Richard

Dutch_Cactus


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Message Posted:
15/04/2011 21:17

Genau, Herr Brinsley.

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
15/04/2011 21:22

Re : Msg 6,

renelapin



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Message Posted:
15/04/2011 21:28

Thanks God I'm an atheist.



Rene

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
15/04/2011 21:31

Re : Msg 8,



Genau, Rene!

denizen



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Message Posted:
17/04/2011 21:42

It's not DC, he hates double ID's and wouldn't lower himself Mien Kampf!



and if you believe that, Richard, do ya wanna buy a bridge.