Posted by Aaron on November 23, 19100 at 16:47:05:

In Reply to: Re: God Is Dead posted by Kevin Goodrich on November 14, 19100 at 14:41:26:

: War,
Aaron
: I am currently researching a paper that compares Yeshua (Jesus) with Nietzhe.. and in part to address this very question.
: I am not so sure that Nietzche is claiming that God is alive or dead... neccesarily.
: He is claiming and expressing that the power and dominane religion played in people's lives had come to a critical juncture. Being the 19th century the Age of Reason was high, esp in Germany.. (isn't it always in Germany..).
: Mr. Bachman ertion that people were to lazy to discover and search out solutions and issues on their own contains some merit but does not address the entire issue...
: Many individuals who did not believe in any kind of God/higherpower/absolute were led to this belief by their intense quest for answers in life.
: Also, so many of the greatest minds (and many of them not very lazy) were and are believers in some form of higher power, Descrates, Darwin, Aquinas, Einstein, Newton, etc. as well as many powerful social and political figures...
: Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Desmond Tu-Tu, etc.
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: I do not feel that the generalization of lazyiness is an aqeduate interpretation of Nietzche's statement or on the reasons for humanity having (perhaps needing) religion.

: Yeshua (Jesus), whom Nietzche commended and admired and proposed as a model for the superman theory, proposed in his teachings that importance of creativity, of pion, and clearly demonstrated the traits of individualism, personal power, etc that Nietzhce values so highly.
: Yeshua was also against strict legal mob thinking... and in most of his encounters with people he always encouraged them to think on their own... so many of the Yeshua Parables invovle individuals asking him for advice and he simply replies in essence "What do YOU think?"

: I may not return to this forum as I was simply surfing and it caught my attention, please e-mail me back responses, etc.

: Peace,
: Kevin

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