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👉🏻jonathan_foster's avatar

-Really good.

-You ever read "Philosophy’s Violent Sacred (Duane Armitage)"? I found that to be helpful along these lines (not suggesting you need help, btw, just that you'd find resonance with it.)

-"Nietzsche had to find a scapegoat ... so he unconsciously deemed himself the victim ..." Yes, I think so. Never thought of it that way, but it makes sense. (If self-victimizing makes sense.)

-Thanks.

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Autumn Mackenzie's avatar

This is so so good. You’re right on the money — we’re fundamentally religious and we ought not to laugh at the “Bronze Age peasants” sacrificing their children to Moloch. It is only the fumes of Christianity keeping that sort of behavior at bay.

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