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Nietzsche and Marx are the two atheists who seem like they sprung out of nowhere, but in fact, they had their intellectual predecessors in the Enlightenment: Rousseau and Sade.

The rotten fruit of their godless and extremely destructive philosophies are directly traceable to what seemed so rational and scientific. It turns out that when you throw morals out the window, you get evil (like mass murder) of all kinds.
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🇰 🇷 🇾 🇵 🇹 🇮 🇽 · 2w
And who was hitlers influemce?
Jeremy · 2w
You have misread Nietzsche (if you have read him at all) if you think him an atheist. He argues that God/s are a constructions but not about the existence of metaphysical beings/realms, at least that I have encountered… but I have also only read a few of his works and… in English at that. When ...
Jeremy · 2w
PS sorry for the jab at the start… I was still under the effect of your rotten fruit and atheist comment… but most of all, putting Marx and Nietzsche in the same team like that really rubbed me the wrong way.
Kayne · 2w
This is the most retarded thing I've read today. Good job.
BDC · 2w
Right. Cause we all need mythology to show us the true and enlightened way. Wait! Whose mythological tale do we follow though, I don’t know. Nah. Perhaps I’ll just lean in to not knowing and look for the goodness and beauty in the world all about us and stop trying to make shit up to pacify ...
Lost Knight · 2w
Elaborate on Rousseau atheism.
dazzling · 2w
This is a shitty take. How much violence has come out of misinterpretation of various religious texts?? People who have an agenda will find a popular philosophy and fimd stuff in there to use for their ends. Nietzsche, Marx, the Quran, the Bible, you name it! Shitty people are going to do shitty thi...