Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Religion Is Hate For Nature



"in Christianity , neither morality nor religion come in touch at all with reality. Nothing but imaginary causes. Imaginary Natural History(Anthropocentric: total lack of notion 'natural causes'); an imaginary psychology(nothing but misunderstandings of self, interpretations of pleasant or unpleasant general feelings) This purely fictitious world distinguishes itself,very unfavorably from the world of dreams:The latter reflects reality, where as the former falsifies, depreciates and denies it. Once the concept 'Nature" was taken to mean the opposite of the concept of 'God', the word 'Natural' had to acquire the meaning of abominable.

The whole of this fictitious world takes its root in the hatred of nature (reality!), it is the expression of profound discomfiture in the presence of reality...But this explains everything. What is the only kind of man who has reasons for wriggling out of reality by lies?
The man who suffers from reality!

But in order to suffer from reality one must be a bungled portion of it. The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of that fictitious morality and religion: but any such preponderance furnishes the formula for decadence"
- Friedrich Nietzsche , Chapter 15 "The Antichrist"

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