What Nietzsche said about religion?
Nietzsche rejects the Christian God, he is not ‘anti-religious. ‘ Rather, Nietzsche is a religious thinker precisely because he adopts Schopenhauer’s analysis of religion as an intellectual construction that addresses the existential problems of pain and death, and gives authority to community-creating ethos.
Did Albert Camus believe in religion?
Nevertheless, his philosophy explicitly rejects religion as one of its foundations. Not always taking an openly hostile posture towards religious belief—though he certainly does in the novels The Stranger and The Plague—Camus centers his work on choosing to live without God.
What was Zimbabwe’s religion?
Most Zimbabweans are Christians. Statistics estimate that 74.8% identify as Protestant (including Apostolic – 37.5%, Pentecostal – 21.8% or other Protestant denominations – 15.5%), 7.3% identify as Roman Catholic and 5.3% identify with another denomination of Christianity.
What did Albert Camus believe about God?
Albert Camus was an existentialist. He was also not a religious person and even though he was born and raised a Catholic; he soon quit his religious faith and turned into an atheist, believing that religion was “philosophical suicide”.
Why is Nietzsche against religion?
Nietzsche’s case against Christianity was that it kept people down; that it smothered them with morality and self-loathing. His ideal human is one who is free to express himself (yes, he’s sexist), like a great artist or a Viking warrior. Morality is for the little people. It’s the way the weak manipulate the strong.
What did Nietzsche think of paganism?
Pagan gods are ‘beyond good and evil’, and in paganism, humanity’s place is understood as among the gods. As Nietzsche reveals, the ultimate issue is not morality but aesthetics. And the place that is ‘beyond good and evil’ is this-world, the world of nature.
Why did Albert Camus not believe in God?
Camus appears to have come to his atheism both because there is no evidence for a god, and also because of the problem of evil. His biographer Herbert Lottman reports that in his youth, Camus and his friend Max-Pol Fouchet came across a child who had been killed when struck by a bus.
What are the top 3 religions in Zimbabwe?
Religion in Zimbabwe
- Protestant (69.2%)
- Roman Catholic (8.0%)
- Other Christian (6.9%)
- Folk religion (4.5%)
- Muslim (0.7%)
- Other faith (0.5%)
- None (10.2%)
How does Nietzsche view Christianity?
Nietzsche’s case against Christianity was that it kept people down; that it smothered them with morality and self-loathing. His ideal human is one who is free to express himself (yes, he’s sexist), like a great artist or a Viking warrior.