Is Morality Derived From a Transcendent Standard?
Dan Barker, the former fundamentalist minister-turned-atheist, and now president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has recently written his most recent b...
Tag: Friedrich Nietzsche
The End (of the year) is Here! Let’s Do a Top Ten List!
It has been a pretty good year for resurrecting orthodoxy–at least as far as my little corner of the blogosphere is concerned. This morning I looked back ...
A Mysterious Call from Friedrich Nietzsche: Follow Ken Ham’s White Rabbit! There is No Spoon, and Facts Mean Nothing!
The other day, I received a short note from someone who had a question regarding one of my posts on Ken Ham. He asked, “Since Ken Ham says that the evidence for...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 54): Friedrich Nietzsche–The Philosopher of the Hammer
Deism, Enlightenment thought, the influence of the industrial revolution, Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx…with a little bit of Darwin thrown in—with all this going...
Nietzsche’s “Ubermensch” vs. Jesus Christ
As we saw in the last post, Nietzsche had declared that the Enlightenment culture of Europe had essentially “killed” God, even though it had not yet realized it...
Friedrich Nietzsche: God is Dead…and We Have Killed Him!
Perhaps the most famous saying attributed to Nietzsche is, “God is Dead.” Sure, the saying, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” probably comes in a close...
Friedrich Nietzsche: Master Morality and Slave Morality…and Jesus
In addition to talking about the will to power and the will to truth, Nietzsche also has a lot to say about what he coins master morality and slave morality. Th...
Friedrich Nietzsche on the Sea of Galilee
In my previous post, I ended with the fact that groups like the Nazis have taken Nietzsche’s concepts and have used them to justify some very evil acts. That wh...
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Enlightenment, Christianity, and the Philosopher of the Hammer
Ever since I was in college, Friedrich Nietzsche has long fascinated me, although I’ll admit it right now: I couldn’t understand him 85% of the time. After stru...