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OGRE's avatar

*** This answer is that the triumphant group in question did not go astray for the reason Nietzsche supplies — an “excess” of Christianity — but because of a deficit, and one particular kind of deficit, one caused by a turning away from the Ancient Church and its disciplines of spiritual experience, and a turning toward something else. ***

This is how I feel.

A lot of Nietzsche's criticisms are directed at the Catholic Church. At least from what I've seen. I'm yet to read an entire book from Nietzsche.

On those points, I agree with Nietzsche. The Catholic Church is a corrupt organization. I can see how anyone would be turned off by it. Considering that the church literally "makes up" dogma. They can twist anything to serve whatever purpose.

Purgatory is the example that first comes to mind. "Pay us, give us gold, and we'll "pray" to get your loved one(s) out of the place -- we just made up to get money..."

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Craig Klein's avatar

What's missing is the responsibility of the consumer. Just as most would not knowingly do business with a known murderer or you might chose to do business with those that support the same causes and values as you, we can do the same with our tech tools. Our dollars fund the tyranny of Big Tech. Our use and data fund the tyranny of Big Tech. There are alternatives. How many that publish here on Substack also have a MailChimp account? MailChimp has censored so many voices of freedom in the last 3 years it's impossible to ignore.

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