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How Did Nietzsche Contribute To Religion

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Introduction
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in the small village of Röcken, Germany. Nietzsche mainly was raised by his Franziska his mother, his sister Elisabeth and two unmarried aunts after his father, Karl Ludwig Nietzche, died 5 years after his birth.
Nietzsche had a religous unbringing with his father being a Protestant minister, as well as only living a few yards away from Rocken’s church in the Pastor’s house. The family soon moved to nearby Naumburg an der Saale after the death of his father. This up bring in a gloomy piety atmosphere sparked the fire of rebellion against the oppressive weight of Christian moralising as well as God.
Nietzsche began to break decisively from his faith whilst preparing for university studies in Schulpforta (1858 - 1864) a highly regarded boarding school. Schulpforta had a strict educational atmosphere based off the history as a former Cistercian Monastery. Religion had a strong presence in the school with both a 12th century Romanesque Chapel and 13th century Gothic church on the premises.Nietzche wrote many autobiographies through his life. He stated in his 1859 autobiography that “God has guided me safely in everything as a father would his weak little child,” and by May 1861 he had concluded that the idea of God was “unfathomable” since there was …show more content…

In an essay composed on his Easter vacation in 1862, the seventeen-year-old Nietzsche would wonder “how our view of the world might change if there were no God, immortality, Holy Spirit, or divine inspiration, and if the tenets of millennia were based on delusions.” Safranski explains how this thought quickly generated a series of puzzles that would set Nietzsche’s philosophical agenda for the rest of his life: “Might people have been ‘led astray by a vision’ for such a long time? What kinds of reality are left behind once religious phantasms have been taken

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