repents')...(progress ofthe idea: it becomes more subtle, insidious, incomprehensible - it becomesfemale, it becomes Christian.) The true world is promised, but removed and the apparant world is denied for the sake of attainment of the real one. Theundermining of sensuous values attains what Nietzsche calls ascetic ideals,good, evil, God, truth and the virtues that are demanded to attain in light ofthese form the codes of the priests. These metaphysical codes are designed togive the pious a transcendent idealized place to go, one that will replace thesensuous situated world of humanity. The series of nots that Christianityembraces, truth is not of the body, not of this world, not humanity, thisgeneral negation of the world reveals to Nietzsche, Christianity's fundamentaldenial of life. Ultimately, the unattainable world is the truth, God's point ofview is the view from nowhere, an unquestionable unbiased veridical apprehensionof the really real.Another sense of nihilism arises, rooted somewhat in the first, it will not bethe abdication of this world for some other instead. This brand of nihilismattains when one's words overtly call attention to God, and the values fosteredin His name, but the very idea of no God has replaced the hitherto dominanttheocentric paradigm, science now situates man's place in the universe.Nietzsche is perhaps most famous for his rallying cry, God is dead. Nietzschewill contend, in the parable of the Madman that we have taken a step away fromthe stultifying belief in the trasencendent realm, but are far from behaving asif we acknowledged His death. The events for which God was invented have now allbeen explained by a science, the holiest and mightiest...has bled to deathunder our knife. But the crowd listening only stares on silently looking onsurprised. The madman is too early, for the wielders of the blade have notmeasured the full implication of His death. There remains the residue ofChristian faith that i...
