Nietzsche

Okay first of I like the whole free spirited concept as much as the next person. You’re not controlled, or programmed like a machine to do what is told you speak and feel your own mind. Great. But what really is the meaning of free spirited? Of course you’d like to think of it as having a positive connotation because what person would not like the freedom to do what they want and think? Once again I disagree with the misconception of religion. In part 3 they mention “Christianity; it is so much closer to the faith of Pascal, which resembles in a gruesome manner a continual suicide of reason—a tough, long-lived, wormlike reason that cannot be killed all at once and with a single stroke. From the start, the Christian faith is a sacrifice: a sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of the spirit; at the same time, enslavement and self-mockery, self-mutilation.” I really don’t like how people are always trying to connote religion as something so horrible. This excerpt mainly talks about being free spirited, and that religion is supposedly the down fall of all things that are free spirited because it is something that controls you. The truth is that religion does not control you it just teaches you right from wrong. It’s as simple as that. I don’t understand why a lot of people do not understand this and instead they just keep thinking that it is something negative and created by man in order to “cushion” people’s way of thinking of the bad aspects of life. What is wrong with being taught right from wrong and having a guilty conscience if someone does wrong? If someone is too free spirited perhaps nothing would prevent them from doing what they want (good or bad.) If you have no conscience telling you right from wrong then what will prevent you from performing bad acts? If there was no law against killing people and you decided to kill whoever you did not like, wouldn’t that lead to chaos?