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Ideas for Porphyry, Thrasymachus and Friedrich Nietzsche
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29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 2. Greek Polytheism
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The Greeks lack a normative theology: each person has their own poetic view of things [Nietzsche]
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The Greeks saw the gods not as their masters, but as idealised versions of themselves [Nietzsche]
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Paganism is a form of thanking and affirming life? [Nietzsche]
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29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity
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Christians believe that only God can know what is good for man [Nietzsche]
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Science rejecting the teaching of Christianity in favour of Epicurus shows the superiority of the latter [Nietzsche]
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The Sermon on the Mount is vanity - praying to one part of oneself, and demonising the rest [Nietzsche]
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Christ was the noblest human being [Nietzsche]
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Christianity is Platonism for the people [Nietzsche]
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Christ seems warm hearted, and suppressed intellect in favour of the intellectually weak [Nietzsche]
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Christianity hoped for a short cut to perfection, that skipped the hard labour of morality [Nietzsche]
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Christianity was successful because of its heathen rituals [Nietzsche]
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Christian belief is kept alive because it is soothing - the proof based on pleasure [Nietzsche]
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Primitive Christianity is abolition of the state; it is opposed to defence, justice, patriotism and class [Nietzsche]
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How could the Church intelligently fight against passion if it preferred poorness of spirit to intelligence? [Nietzsche]
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Christianity is a revolt of things crawling on the ground against elevated things [Nietzsche]
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29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 5. Bible
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The story in Genesis is the story of God's fear of science [Nietzsche]
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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / a. Religious Belief
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The truly great haters in world history have always been priests [Nietzsche]
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Religion is tempting if your life is boring, but you can't therefore impose it on the busy people [Nietzsche]
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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism
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'I believe because it is absurd' - but how about 'I believe because I am absurd' [Nietzsche]
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'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true [Nietzsche]
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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality
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The great lie of immortality destroys rationality and natural instinct [Nietzsche]
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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul
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Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body [Porphyry]
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Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul [Porphyry]
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The easy and graceful aspects of a person are called 'soul', and inner awkwardness is called 'soulless' [Nietzsche]
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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven
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In heaven all the interesting men are missing [Nietzsche]
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We don't want heaven; now that we are men, we want the kingdom of earth [Nietzsche]
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People who disparage actual life avenge themselves by imagining a better one [Nietzsche]
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Heaven was invented by the sick and the dying [Nietzsche]
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29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil
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A combination of great power and goodness would mean the disastrous abolition of evil [Nietzsche]
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