How a theologian today can have a good conscience with his Christianity is incomprehensible and inaccessible to me …
This is from Volume 16 of Friedrich Nietzsche’s notebooks, an unpublished remark from June-July of 1885.
I’ve been acquiring the set as it is published, and this passage provoked two reactions in me when I encountered it.
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Recognition, because I’ve had the identical thought through the years. Do the professors at the local seminary really not know that they’re frauds, or do they not care?
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This was written almost 150-years ago — before the invention of, even, the automobile. How does theological nonsense even persist when it ought to be as disreputable as alchemy?