If Nietzsche was an atheist, why did he want others to follow Christianity?
March 17th, 2010EDIT:
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He was quite mad however yes :)
He likened going to church with going to the pub, it was a cop out of reality.
I think religious records of the time note him as being
"A known Antichrist"
Quote:
" What advantages did the Christian moral hypothesis offer?
1. It endowed man with an absolute value, in contrast to his smallness and contingency in the flux of becoming and passing away.
2. It served the advocates of God by conceding to the world, despite suffering and evil, the character of perfection, including that â ˜freedomâ ™ - evil seemed full of meaning.
3. It posited that man knows about absolute values, thus giving him adequate knowledge precisely of what is most important.
4. It shielded man from despising himself as man, from taking sides against life, from despairing of knowledge: it was a means of preservation
In summa: morality was the great antidote to practical and theoretical nihilism."
(Late Notebooks)
For many nineteenth atheists, including Nietzsche, the decline in the level of Christian belief was felt to be a melancholy affair, and certainly not something to be celebrated. But, given that melancholy fact, Nietzsche set himself the task of coming up with a new morality; and then became appalled at where it was leading him.
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