{"id":224,"date":"2015-03-16T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2015-03-15T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T16:29:15","slug":"the-will-to-power-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Will to Power<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><i>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto<\/i><br \/>I: Criticism of Religion<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;245<\/b> &#0160; Let any one think of the loss which all human institutions suffer, when a divine and transcendental, higher sphere is postulated which must first sanction these institutions!  <span style=\"background-color:#9BF1F2\">By recognising their worth in this sanction alone (as in the case of marriage, for instance) their natural dignity is reduced<\/span> and under certain circumstances denied &#8211;.  Nature is spitefully misjudged in the same ratio as the anti-natural notion of a God is held in honour.  \u201cNature\u201d then comes to mean no more than \u201ccontemptible\u201d, \u201cbad\u201d &#8211;.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal nature of a belief in God as the reality of the highest moral qualities: through it, all real values were denied and systematically regarded as valueless.  Thus Anti-Nature ascended the throne.  With relentless logic the last step was reached and this was the absolute demand to deny Nature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This thought occurs throughout Nietzsche&#8217;s writings, but never quite so explicitly.  And, of course, he certainly pegged the Southern Baptist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=136\" target=\"_blank\">teaching<\/a> that marriage is no more than cosmic permission for sexual intercourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoI: Criticism of Religion &#0167;245 &#0160; Let any one think of the loss which all human institutions suffer, when a divine and transcendental, higher sphere is postulated which must &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}