Genealogy Of Morality, Beyond Good And Evil And The Human Condition

The ideas of Hegel and Paine about religion, proved that it was significant. It pioneered and taught man of the concepts of reason and liberty. Religion became a way to urge man to improve and participate. In other words, man tried to understand because it held the idea that they can acquire knowledge. And that it allowed man to assume that it can participate since he is similar to other men.
On the other hand, postmodern thinkers, Friedrich Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt pushed for a different conception of religion. In their works, Genealogy of Morality, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Human Condition, suggest that religion has created an isolation. The ideas of man were somehow corrupted because of religion.
Nietzsche, in his idea of master-slave

According to her, Christian alienation has occurred because Christianity lets out the idea that good deeds must not be announced to the public (Arendt, 1998, p. 74). Thus, a Christian man ought to do good in secret so that the higher being would be pleased. Additionally, Arendt contends that the Christian morality teaches man not to align himself with the public and instead must solely focus on his works (Arendt, 1998, p. 60). These teachings of the Christian religion resulted to man being indifferent in the public affairs. Thenceforth, the public realm wherein man is expected to participate is badly affected.
Nietzsche and Arendt, then, displayed the idea of religion being used differently by man. Instead of uniting itself with other people, religion has become a way to differentiate themselves from others. To make things worse, this distinction that was established gave a negative perception.
In the discourse of freedom, philosophers like Hegel and Mill, and Arendt have also proved the shift of perception with regards to the theme. One of these periods viewed freedom as limited for a good purpose. The other one gave freedom as