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What does fighting for Atheism mean ? (I)

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Today, many atheists refer to philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804 -1872), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 -1900) or Bertrand Russell. However, one can doubt if the do rightly. In particular, philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche or Arthur Schopenhauer realize that overcoming monotheistic sect like that one of Christianity means a more serious problem than only that one of theism and atheism. In some regard they are lenient about some monotheistic religions but not about Christian sect.

For instance, Nietzsche writes in his “Anti-Christ”:

“Either a man is a Chandala or he is not. . . . "War to the knife with Rome! Peace and friendship with Islam!": this was the feeling, this was the act, of that great free spirit, that genius among German emperors, Frederick II.”^[i]

“Chandala” is a low caste Hindu one that is obviously vowing to take revenge, in the views of Nietzsche. (Atheist) Nietzsche is lenient to Islam. There are two reasons for that view:

· Firstly neither Islam nor Judaism lifted up the prophet of their own to the god and
· secondly Nietzsche rightly deems those rivals of Christianity is not that insidious, i.e., depraved as Christian sect.
Schopenhauer's and even my attitude do not differ much from that one of Nietzsche.

If theists like the Christian ones allege that the instigator of their sect, Yehoshua-ben-Pandera (sect name: Jesus Christ) did not die but has ascended to heaven, then one has to say that each dead one leaves a corpse. There must be individuals that remove the dead body; otherwise no ascension (to heaven) can be faked. Thus, the allegations of a purported ascension are no traffic accident but an out-and-out deception, at least of the inner circle of those, who instigated that theism. That means that they are already convicted to be unscrupulous liars and deceivers by those pretensions. This means further that first of all such theism is a phenomena of depravity – quite the reverse of that what theists are used to faking and feigning.

What are the premises of the possibility of exalting oneself or someone else to the god? The first and basic presupposition for doing that does not believe in any god. If those ones would believe in god they would die of fear while doing that. One only can lift up oneself or another one to the god while being convinced that there is no god that will punish that presumption or outrage seriously and eternally in hell. That is where theism like the Christian one is congruent with atheism. That is the atheistic premise of Christian “theism”.

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