Doubt as sin.-- Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature- is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
from Nietzsche's Daybreak,s. 89, R.J. Hollingdale tran
Lourdes Joseph
02/07/15
Nietzsche quote
It basically means that we don’t have to follow rules,
because society created rules to make us behave a certain way, and force us to
believe that those rules really exist.
It applies today, we do certain things not because we want
to but because we believe it is the right things to do based on what we have
been told . Also, we don’t want to be judge by other people when we fail to do
what they expected us to do.
your point is well said, society has created rules for us to follow them, to have control on what we can and cant do.
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