Maggots feasting on dead rats no longer problem at Detroit animal shelter … http://t.co/bU0aAQZHjZ
— Detroit Update (@DetroitUpdate) August 7, 2015
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities§376 Man’s growing inwardness. The process of turning a nature inwards arises when, owing to the establishment of peace and society, powerful instincts are prevented from venting themselves outwardly and strive to survive harmlessly inside in conjunction with the imagination. The need of hostility, cruelty, revenge and violence is reverted, is repressed; in the thirst for knowledge there lurks both the lust of gain and of conquest; in the artist, the powers of dissimulation and falsehood find their scope; the instincts are thus transformed into demons with whom a fight takes place, etc.
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: Concerning the Slander of the so-called Evil Qualities§375 All the instincts and forces which morality praises seem to me to be essentially the same as those which it slanders and rejects: for instance, justice as will to power, will to truth as a means in the service of the will to power.
Today’s excellent post by Tom Rich puts me in mind of this favorite quote from that German philosopher with the funny, hard-to-spell name.
In truth there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Friedrich Nietzsche; The Antichrist, §39
So this might not be a bad time to recall that Nietzsche was an admirer of Jesus — or, at least, of the ethics he preached; it was the organized churches he hated.
Michigan’s Southern Baptists, who appear unaware that the Satanic Temple is an elaborate cultural hoax aimed directly at ignorant yahoos like themselves, bravely slog-on after the unveiling of a statue honoring Bathomet.
Michigan Baptists will not waver in their efforts to spread the Gospel throughout their state, even after The Satanic Temple (TST) has unveiled a bronze, 9-foot-tall statue of Baphomet in Detroit, says Tim Patterson, a Baptist leader in the state.
What makes this fun is the revelation that, hell, practically everybody but Southern Baptists are Satan-worshippers.
“Every golden Buddha in your city is a statue to Satan, as well as every Hindu idol,” Barber, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Farmersville, Texas, wrote. “So, the fact that this statue is dedicated to Satan adds nothing new and only serves to make what God has seen all along obvious to everyone. There are satanic idols all around us.”
I guess now we know where George Bush got the idea that those who aren’t with us are evil.
