/lit/ - Literature

>>15878757
The same could be said for Jesus, who was not a Christian; nor did any of his Apostles consider themselves as such

>>15764969
Cultural anthropology is the most unfulfilling religion. It’s the real red pill and you cannot unswallow it. My values have no existence on their own and all aspirations are ultimately self-serving. Criticism of any actions or beliefs in any cultures are in the end ironic and we simply agree on moral principles to suit our own comfort. Which is why I believe the ultimate question in all of history is whether Jesus ascended from the grave. The answer determines if there is a moral obligation and if there is a law above the law.

>>15551788
Your two paragraphs directly answer each other.

The proper answer to Nietzsche is the Resurrection. Nietzsche is such a powerful and formidable thinker, and so directly attacks the very root of Christianity, that the only real answer to him is Christ Himself, and His Resurrection. The reason Nietzsche is so strong is that he is very correct in a lot of ways, and accurately diagnoses much of what is wrong with the world today, and accurately analyzes the state of much of modernity. The fact that his own writings came to shape modernity for so many only furthers his accuracy.

Nietzsche is so powerful precisely because he is the most accurate and most correct of all the atheists. Nietzsche accurately diagnoses what the world would be like if Christianity is a fraud and God didn't exist, and everyone had just been pretending for 2000 years. Lots of other atheists are not like that. Bertrand Russell is not like that. You can dismiss Bertrand Russell easily. Christopher Hitchens can be dismissed easily as well. But Nietzsche is a better seer and a clearer thinker than either of them, and his declarations make perfect sense if Christianity is false. If Christianity is false, we live in Nietzsche's world, and, paradoxically, Nietzsche IS our Christ. Nietzsche is the messiah and prophet of a godless world.

But if Jesus is truly raised from the dead, Nietzsche loses all his power. What use are all of Nietzsche's diagnoses, in the face of a God who truly lives, a God who came down to be among us so that we might be among Him, a God who lived, then died, then lived again? Christ Crucified and Christ Risen is the defeat of Nietzsche, nothing else will suffice. Nietzsche is too powerful to be defeated by anything less. But it is a defeat, a final, triumphant defeat, and thank God for that.

Nietzsche is so powerful these days precisely because the modern world has forgotten that Jesus really did rise from the dead. This is a thing we must remind people of now more than ever.