Christianity destroyed the renaissance. I am not a history buff, and as we all have our one subject that we aren’t particularly interested in, mine is history. History bores me so! That said, I have been unaware as what the Renaissance was conceptually. I know its general sliver in time, and I was familiar with Martin Luther. However, knowing of him from a second (really third) hand knowledge, that is a purely Christian, mostly catholic point of view I hadn’t known Luther from this perceptive. Again, it doesn’t cease to amaze me that at every corner Christianity and the Catholic church especially have more appalling skeletons in their figurative closet. As Nietzsche puts it, what if the renaissance had succeeded? And, in my own delving I wonder what kind of world we’d have been living in for the last four and a half centuries. I’ll refrain from making an anti-logical guess that we’d be living in a virtual utopia, however, I wonder about certain wars, intolerances and injustices we now know in the name of god. Could this have in a manner of influence possibly culled the growth of Islam?
Getting back on track, Nietzsche recalls a catastrophic crime committed by the Germans in this instance in history which seems to almost rival in comparison to the German occupation waiting to take its place in history some 39 years after Friedrich Nietzsche’s death. To justify my notion, he explains that “If mankind never manages to get rid of Christianity the Germans will be to blame.” One must understand that to Nietzsche’s discussed for the Christian church, “the greatest of all imaginable corruptions,” and “I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race”. From there he goes on to pick a part any notion that the church has done any right, or “humanitarian” favors to the world, and that’s its humanitarianism is just mere partisan of its own behalf that sucks the beauty out of life. When not kept separate from inter-human realties such social aspects and political ones I must second that notion.
-Jeremy Watkins (M.G.)
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