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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
I do not care for Friedrich Nietzsche, nor do I consider him great. I never care to read his writings. He might be popular or important to many, but those I've met that follow him are misotheistic. I never meant someone, who quoted Nietzche as if he was a god, had anything positive to say for those who do believe in God. I shouldn't judge a philosphers by the people who read their books but like they say a bird of a feather flock togehter and that guy keeps mean misotheistic company.
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Nietzsche is a very important philosopher though. While post-modernism is my greatest enemy, Nietzsche's questions were crucial to the strengthening of a rational worldview. He attacked the accepted notions of the time. Now we are just better because we have fixed or reasoning.
I would definitely say I am a misotheist, though then I would also say I cannot hate a god that doesn't exist. I wouldn't say I got that from Nietzsche, but he probably strengthened it in some way. Ayn Rand probably influenced me much more in the area of Atheism since she was the philosopher that convinced me it was worthwhile.
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I see it this way if Nietzche rejected Platonism, then Plato must be right. I prefer G.K. Chesterton & C.S. Lewis among others. I can imagine all the scoffs directed at me, for me bringing them up.
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I have never read any Chesterton. However, I have read C.S. Lewis. I have read The Screwtape Letters. When I was a Christian I loved the book because it was a bit different. I was planning to read Mere Christianity. Now I have no desire to do that.