Monday, February 06, 2012

Profoundly pious...

...Nietzsche's passionate atheism was the making of me

As a good communist, atheism had always been my unexamined default position. And because Nietzsche was so passionate an atheist, I had my defences down to his unusually intense religiosity and elliptical desire for salvation. Which, I suppose, is how the question of God crept under my intellectual radar.

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