Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Personal Bias Arguing Religion
The last section abounds with personal bias concerning the subject of religion. Nietzsche does not try to hide his emotions when he speaks of the evil and the states that it is because of the priests "Impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions" (Nietzsche 33). He then switches from attacking religion and priests as a whole to isolating his hatred and distrust towards the Jewish race. Despite this obvious hatred towards religion and especially the Jews, Nietzsche wavers against this hatred and points out inconsistencies in his ideas of distrust. He stated that out of the Jewish hatred comes a sublime love. This pure love grows out of the hatred as a crown. This is where Nietzsche loses me. This is a topic that could lead to interesting debate in class, for I can not grasp what ideas are leading towards. I do not understand how love can arise from a "poisonous hatred", and furthermore, I do not understand the associated analogy.
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