Was Nietzsche right about Christianity?

[Kharakov]

It appears to me that many well off Christians act more like silverbacks than they do like Nietzschean Christians. They appear to be quite aware of the falseness of their religion

I think nearly every Christian is aware of this; I certainly was, as only a dumb ol' kid of five years old, but I was also still powerless with fear at the time. I hadn't enough brains to realize that maybe this contradicting sick god didn't even exist.

My brother once said something about "Big Brain Syndrome"- the idea was basically that having excess brainpower leads to a lot of crazy ideas. Some of those ideas get canceled out pretty quickly. Some have been weeded out by eons of natural selection. And some just keep on reappearing in complex consciousnesses over and over again.

The idea of a God that you can communicate with comes from your brain being able to simulate the actions/thoughts of others. If you really try to believe in a "the one and only God", and you start making excuses for their actions (apologetics), and you leverage a bit of your imagination into trying to figure out what a caring God would do in certain situations, you've already created a simulation in your brain.

This simulation is willfully exploited by organized religious types (they are essentially criminals, so I'd think that they'd be covered by the RICO act). Heck- I was targeted by interconnected church groups when I moved into the area I am in now. When I told people here what they did, the people mocked what I said... because obviously corrupt church groups are atheists pretending to be Christian..

Sheesh. So, anyway. Back to the point, maybe:


BBS (big brain syndrome) leads to all sorts of imagined possibilities, some of which are gods that directly interact with our daily lives. Some of these Gods are only partially simulated- not enough thought goes into them to actually make them invalidated, so they can live on despite evidence against their existence. If they get entrenched "Satan is attacking your belief in God, don't believe anything that is against God", you've got an imaginary entity in your brain that requires extensive acknowledgement of truth in order to be rooted out. Don't expect a dominate social group like Christianity to seek the truth, when the truth is against their mental masturbatory God fantasies, and their socioeconomic standing.

 

[Learner]

Goodness V greatness ... average V exceptional ... second rate V first rate - at all costs ? This seems the underline essence of his notion/version to Christianity. I'd be interested if he had exchanged the word "goodness" for "righteousness" ... the main achievement a different context by Jesus's version for Christianity.

 

[DrZoidberg]

Goodness V greatness ... average V exceptional ... second rate V first rate - at all costs ? This seems the underline essence of his notion/version to Christianity. I'd be interested if he had exchanged the word "goodness" for "righteousness" ... the main achievement a different context by Jesus's version for Christianity.

You haven't read and understood Nietzsche. This is the German Nazi parties interpretation of Nietzsche. It is widely regarded, by proper philosophers, as wrong.

Nietzsche was a moral relativist. He doesn't believe in goodness (nor evil) and certainly doesn't believe in righteousness. He believed that we'll always see whatever is the most self serving and self-aggrandising as the most righteous. "I may not have much, but at least I share a greater proportion of what I have with...". If somebody has a bigger or faster car than us, we can always snub our nose at it and condemn the vile man for having a car that's not environmentally friendly.

Nietzsche isn't an elitist. I think the confusion in the English speaking world has arisen from the fact that übermensch is hard to translate to English. It's probably better translated as "overview-man". A man with some distance and the capacity to look at themselves dispassionately.

Nietzsche also rejected the notion that objective truth is knowable for humans. We're stuck with a subjective little window through which we filter everything we see. So we should stop trying to compare ourselves to others. We should instead focus on excelling at whatever we're passionate about. Fuck the mainstream and fuck what's expected of us, and do our own thing. He's more like the first counterculture (beatnik/hippie. The überhippie. Lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch

 

[sharon45]

So we should stop trying to compare ourselves to others. We should instead focus on excelling at whatever we're passionate about. Fuck the mainstream and fuck what's expected of us, and do our own thing.

Well, since we are social animals, we greatly learn and grow from each other, for both good and bad results.

 

[DrZoidberg]

So we should stop trying to compare ourselves to others. We should instead focus on excelling at whatever we're passionate about. Fuck the mainstream and fuck what's expected of us, and do our own thing.

Well, since we are social animals, we greatly learn and grow from each other, for both good and bad results.

Sure. Nietzsche was a child of his times. So he shares many of their values. Nietzsche isn't famous because he was correct about everything. He's famous because he was right about some things. Or at the very least was interesting. We don't have greater demands on famous philosophers. Just being interesting is hard enough

 

[sharon45]

Well, since we are social animals, we greatly learn and grow from each other, for both good and bad results.

Sure. Nietzsche was a child of his times. So he shares many of their values. Nietzsche isn't famous because he was correct about everything. He's famous because he was right about some things. Or at the very least was interesting. We don't have greater demands on famous philosophers. Just being interesting is hard enough

He also seems to be famous for what he is not, mainly an anti-Semite.