File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9811, message 25


From: "Wayne A. King" <kingwa-AT-a.crl.com>
Subject: Re: god (proofread)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:28:38 -0500


m.e. <SCHAEFMB-AT-bc.edu> wrote:

Dear m.e.

Please take more time reading what you are replying to so as not to miss
the point entirely, as you have done here.  Moreover, if you will review
your
grammar, capitalization, and spelling before sending out your reply, what
you posit will probably be taken more seriously even when it is based upon
a misreading.

>THe conclusion you make that it is absurd that  N. beleived that God never
>existed, because of his previous beliefs is illogical.

At the considerable risk of believing I may have correctly discounted the
above problems, I am going to go out on a limb and state it appears what
you seem to believe was my conclusion is the exact opposite
of my actual conclusion.  I never wrote that N believed God never existed.
N believed in God at one time.  That was and is my assertion.  Should you
care to still find it illogical, please state why.

>I once belived in
>the easter bunny and santa clause, whole heartedly,  But as I grew I
>learned otherwise.  Because I now hold that they are not real  doesn't
>mean I beleived they existed at another point in time.  (although Santa
>Clause has a historical basis)  I once belived in GOd, My grandfather is a
>pastor,, I don't believe that I have killed him with my disbelife now..
>Rather I might use that as as a analogy (remeber N. considers himself a
>poet also).


I wasn't attempting to state any general principle, but was providing
remarks about the devoutness of the youthful N.    Don't you find N's
selection of theology for his initial university studies as somewhat
strange if he had been an atheist since the cradle?

Best regards from Hoot Owl Hollow, Georgia
Wayne A. King



Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Wayne A. King wrote:
>
>> The youthful N had a strong belief in God, given his father
>> was pastor at Rocken and other environmental factors, as well
>> as his own nature.  He was encouraged by his mother to become
>> a pastor himself, and began his university studies in theology.  It is
>> unquestionable that N felt the death of God as a tremendous personal
>> loss.  Any idea that N believed God never existed is absurd.
>>
>>
>> Best regards from Hoot Owl Hollow, Georgia
>> Wayne A. King
>>
>>
>> From: Cyprus <sadecamus-AT-sprintmail.com>
>> To: nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>> <nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
>> Date: Sunday, November 01, 1998 12:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: god (proofread)
>>
>>
>> >I think the question most people are ignoring is why, if Nietzsche meant
to
>> >claim that God never ever existed, did he take recourse to cryptic
>> >poetry to say this?  He could have easily written, say, God does not
exist,
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