Have your brain ZAPPED by the possibility that Nietzsche WASN’T an edgy atheist, but secretly a believer… but as always… with a SAVAGE twist.
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At least that is what he wants you to believe.
Dawkins, in his attempts to own the redneck Christians, often calls God a “jealous, murdering, psychopath.” who’s not worth our time.
He is used to getting a round of applause off Reddit for saying this, but when he throws it at Nietzsche he gets a firm and shocking: “YES.”
You see. Nietzsche is not a bit*h. Nietzsche knows that in the real world you have to be dangerous.
Dawkins is the type of guy who would try ask a Lion to be more compassionate.
He’s deluded by silly abstractions: “If only people would stop being mean then things would be nice.”
WHAT IS GOD?
Nietzsche could be understood as the first philosopher to hit puberty. Ironically he was a massive incel.
Yet his spirit was… well… how can I put this… all the way into Life.
You see, most philosophy is done by a nice guy who sits down in a nice little town to write down some nice ideas about how the world works: “the world runs on niceness”.
Of course, the idea these types of guys get about God is a man in the sky who thinks about you and stops bad things from happening.
In reality, what stops bad things from happening… is the army.
The army has to do nasty things to give these nice guys a safe space to write their books. Yet these nice guys, in their incredible ignorance, will write in their books that doing nasty things is the ultimate evil.
WAR
Without the soldiers risks and madness, the society would be overrun.
This is the first reality of the relationship between Life and Civilization.
The God the soldiers believe in is the God of justice. This is the God who believes in competition.
This is the God of survival of the fittest. This is the God of the winner takes all.
This is the God that spoke to Joshua in the Bible and told him to destroy Jericho.
The people living in that city had gotten decadent, lazy, and hedonistic. They had gotten comfortable. The displeased this God of Justice, so he sent the young ambitious Israelis to take everything from them.
You may think: “this isn’t justice, this is just unfair.“
But remember, God took everything from the Israelis in turn, when they got lazy and comfortable, and then gave it to their enemies; The Assyrians.
It’s not nice, but its certainly fair.
DAWKINS BTFO
You’d expect Dawkins to understand this, after all he’s very big on evolution. Evolution is all about survival of the fittest, it’s all about being hard enough to win.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, Richard never evolved much past Christianity himself.
He’s just a Christian who doesn’t want his God to hold him to any standards.
He’s a little boy mad at his Dad for making rules, who wished his Dad was more like his Mum and loved him unconditionally.
…And this guy was a celebrated intellectual?
Ah well, who am I to judge, I am just a boyo.
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