From: L' Ermit (lhermit@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 13:24:43 MST
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[athenonrex] you,(or i believe it was you, please tell me if i am
wrong)wrote that it was a "bad" thing that niechtzse wanted to destroy
religion...
[Rafael Anschau] NO I NEVER WROTE THAT! Nietzche's wanting to destroy
religion is not only GOOD it is... Well, I'm not a poet.. But it's a damn
GOOD thing!
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[Hermit] I don't think that Nietzsche "wanted to destroy religion" - I think
he saw that it had become irrelevant to modern man, and so predicted that it
would self-destruct. This is why he announced "God is dead" as fact, rather
than as a prediction or an argument. In addition, he predicted that although
religion was dead, that it could and would still do damage, flailing around
during its final death-struggles and predicted that would occur sometime
around now.
[Hermit] I [b]hate[/b] watching the damage, but [b]hope[/b] he was right.
The Bonfire of the Crutches - (C) Hermit 2002
God being dead and buried, his worshipers now scurry
Pushing and kicking at each another in their desperate hurry
To and fro, they stumble in search of some new crutch
In their fear, in their alarm, in their terror and such.
Somebody should tell them, they can walk unaided
The time for crutches is past, the need for gods has faded
They can run, and jump and be free, they really, really can.
Nietzsche was right so long ago, when he wrote of the "super man."
And so, today on the anniversary, of the fire on that Campo in Rome,
That tore the life from Giordano Bruno, but left his memes free to roam,
The gods are dead, man can breathe, become thinking, caring people
Tear the Torah from the sanctum, the crucifix from the steeple
Bring your crutches, break them, burn them, it really is not meet,
For a man to depend on a torrent of priests, when he can walk tall on his
own feet.
Kind Regards
Hermit
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