Quote Originally Posted by F L E S H
Breukelen, do you read Nietzsche? Lately Iā??ve read Beyond Good and Evil, the Genealogy of Morals, and snippets of The Antichrist and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This man is a bloody genius.
I have not read that much of him lately, but I own and have read all of those books. Some of them are online, including the H.L. Mencken translation of The Antichrist.
ā?? Here it becomes necessary to call up a memory that must be a hundred times more painful to Germans. The Germans have destroyed for Europe the last great harvest of civilization that Europe was ever to reapā??the Renaissance. Is it understood at last, will it ever be understood, what the Renaissance was? The transvaluation of Christian values,--an attempt with all available means, all instincts and all the resources of genius to bring about a triumph of the opposite values, the more noble values. . . . This has been the one great war of the past; there has never been a more critical question than that of the Renaissanceā??it is my question too--; there has never been a form of attack more fundamental, more direct, or more violently delivered by a whole front upon the center of the enemy!ā?

THE ANTICHRIST by Friedrich Nietzsche, Published 1895, translation by H.L. Mencken Published 1920
http://www.fns.org.uk/ac.htm

This man was probably the greatest Atheist that ever lived. He would have rather devoted more of his time to the arts, but he KNEW what had to be done about religion and, through his writings, totally destroys any vestige of rationale for Christianity, and other belief systems. An Atheist Hero!