RE: Your stance on Hard Atheism
October 29, 2014 at 6:59 am
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2014 at 7:08 am by Mudhammam.)
I just came across this passage while reading The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche:
"As interpreters of our experiences.--One sort of honesty has been alien to all founders of religion and their kind: They have never made their experiences a matter of conscience for knowledge. “What did I really experience? What happened in me and around me at that time? Was my reason bright enough? Was my will opposed to all deceptions of the senses and bold and in resisting the fantastic?” None of them has asked such questions, nor do any of our dear religious people ask them even now; on the contrary, they thirst after things that go against reason, and they do not wish to make it too hard for themselves to satisfy it. So they experience “miracles” and “rebirths” and hear the voices of little angels! But we, we others who thirst after reason, are determined to scrutinize our experiences as severely as a scientific experiment--hour after hour, day after day. We ourselves wish to be our own experiments and guinea pigs."
Sound familiar much?
"As interpreters of our experiences.--One sort of honesty has been alien to all founders of religion and their kind: They have never made their experiences a matter of conscience for knowledge. “What did I really experience? What happened in me and around me at that time? Was my reason bright enough? Was my will opposed to all deceptions of the senses and bold and in resisting the fantastic?” None of them has asked such questions, nor do any of our dear religious people ask them even now; on the contrary, they thirst after things that go against reason, and they do not wish to make it too hard for themselves to satisfy it. So they experience “miracles” and “rebirths” and hear the voices of little angels! But we, we others who thirst after reason, are determined to scrutinize our experiences as severely as a scientific experiment--hour after hour, day after day. We ourselves wish to be our own experiments and guinea pigs."
Sound familiar much?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
