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Friedrich Nietzsche's Insurrection

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“Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a good atheist.” This quote from Ernest Bloch summarizes Friedrich Nietzsche’s parable of the madman in one sentence. If a sophomore theology major can be taken by surprise at the fact that Friedrich Nietzsche was not a Christian, this either speaks virtuously of Nietzsche’s legacy or poorly of this student’s intuition. Upon an initial personal reflection, the mindset of Nietzsche could be defended as compatible to the a-theistic pyro-theology in Peter Rollin’s book Insurrection. It is possible that my meaning gleaned from Nietzsche’s parable may not be the same as the meaning he intended. Just as how Hitchens, Bonhoeffer, Calvin, Descartes, American Beauty, and modernity in

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