What Is Nietzsche's Purpose Of Religion

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The religious character: Nietzsche opens this chapter with the idea of human soul and its limits. These are some questions which answers are not able to find in this world and always being the curios topic for psychologist. In order to understand the deep core of soul, we must have to possess “malicious spirituality” which makes us able to look and think beyond the limits and formulas. The growth of atheism is due to the growth of modern philosophy. Nietzsche believes that the idea of god as father, leader is no longer existed because god never hear or respond our praying. We devoted our will, freedom, knowledge and ourselves. Nietzsche put an idea that faith of Christianity is faith of sacrifice. The Christianity put an idea that after we sacrifice our everything, then we devote our god to whom we have all our faith and now we are searching our god in the form of rocks. …show more content…

For lower class, religion teaches them to be in the lower position. For upper class, religion teaches them to maintain their level and ready for future rule. Religion has its own purpose. The basic purpose of Christianity is to look after human beings who are weak and have weak self -spirit. In other words, Nietzsche try to convey that Christianity try to enhance weakness and sickness. So, we always want to remain weak instead of being strong The main idea of this part is to distinguish between slave morality and master morality. The definition of good and evil in the aristocratic society and Christian society is exact opposite. In this era, science has considered itself as an opposite of religion but, Nietzsche finds this as a development of