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Old 08-08-2006, 02:33 AM
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Default Re: Evil without religion?

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Originally Posted by kingdaddy
Not at all logical, if man created religion, and he did, then it is not religion that is inhearntly evil, its man.

Evil is the total presence of selfishness to the point of hurting someone else to do what you please, nothing more, and this has nothing to do with religion. All sinfull nature derives from the root of selfishness, Love however is the polar opposite in that it is about someone elses feelings that are put first, thus selflessness. As with all things here on earth, selfish is at one end of the scale and selfless is on the other end and people choose how far to lean towards one or the other end.
You seem to misunderstand me. Man created Evil indeed, but he did so out of resentment to the Übermensch. And religion (and the whole idea of God) is a way to fight the Übermensch. He decided that the Übermensch was the "Evil", and thus, everything opposite of the Übermensch was "Good".

It's a master-slave morality really. The slave creates evil as a way to fight the master, and do this by standing together, and all agree that the master is Evil. Thus it is a reactionary morality, that was invented just to despise the Übermensch. Their concept of "Good" is just the opposite, or whatever is best for the "slaves".

Think about the Roman and Judean type, as Nietzsche said it. The Romans honoured the "Übermensch", and most of them were almost Übermensch themselves. The Judean type is the one you now bow to when you're in Rome; namely, the weak. You bow to Jesus Christ the Carpenter, Paul the carpet-maker and Peter the fisherman. What happened to the strong? Augustus, Cæsar, the great poets, the great sculpturers, the great musicians, the great writers, not to mention the great philosophers?
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