From: Rafael Anschau (anschau.ez@terra.com.br)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 21:29:06 MST
L' Ermit: YOU ROCK!
At 14:24 14/02/02 -0600, you wrote:
><snip>
>[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!
><snip>
>
>[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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