"Against this theological instinct I wage war: I have found its tracks everywhere. Whoever has theological blood in his veins is from the start crooked and dishonorable toward all things. The pathos which develops out of this calls itself faith: closing one’s eyes to oneself once and for all so as not to suffer at the sight of an incurable falsehood. One creates for oneself a moral, a virtue, a holiness out of the faulty perspective toward all things, one connects a good conscience with false seeing — one demands that no other kind of perspective shall have value anymore once one’s own has been made sacrosanct with the names “God,” “salvation,” “eternity.” I have dug up the theological instinct everywhere: it is the most widespread, truly underground form of falsehood there is on earth. Whatever a theologian feels to be true must be false: This is almost a criterion of truth. It is his deepest instinct of self-preservation, which forbids reality at any point from being respected, or even being spoken of. As far as theological influence extends, value judgment is stood on its head, the concepts “true” and “false” are necessarily reversed: what is most destructive to life is here called “true,” what exalts, elevates, affirms, justifies, makes triumphant, that is called “false”... Should it happen that theologians, through the “conscience” of princes (or of peoples — ), start stretching their hand out for power, let us not doubt what is basically happening every time: the will to the end, the nihilistic will wants power..." -Nietzsche- (The Antichrist, 9)
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:29:44 +0000
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