lism, that fostered through activeworship, as pernicious due to its reinforcement of a fundamental attitude thatdenies life. Throughout his life Nietzsche argued the contemporary metaphysicalbasis for belief in a deity were merely negations of, or tried to deny, theuncertainties of what is necessarily a situated human existence. Religiousdoctrine is steeped in, and bounded by references to good and evil and originalsin.The religious student is taught original sin, with the hopes the student willfaithfully deny a human nature. Good and evil are not the approbation orprohibition against certain actions, rather, such doctrine codifies self hatredand begs the rejection of human nature. Christianity goes beyond a denial ofjust the flesh and blood of the body to do away with the whole of the world. InTwilight of the Idols, Nietzsche suggests in several places, that the world isfalsified when dictated by the tenets of dualistic philosophies, with emphasison Christianity.How the True World Finally Became Fable, a section in Twilight of the Idols,is subtitled The History of an Error, for it supposes to give a shortrendering of how the true world is lost in the histories of disfiguringphilosophies that posit otherworldly dualistic metaphysics. First, Plato'svision of the realm of forms. The true world - attainable for the sage, thepious, the virtuous man, a feasible world, achievable through piety and wisdom.A world a man may come to know, at least possible for the contemplative anddiligent student.In this early imagining the world is not entirely lost yet, itis however, removed from the concrete world. A world hardly accessible but bythe few who might escape the cave.The first realization of nihilism is the denial of the sensuous world for thereally real. The idea of the true world removed is then characterized as theChristian world.The true world - unattainable for now, but promised for thesage, the pious, the virtuous man (for the sinner that ...
