Tag: Nietzsche
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Dionysus and the Crucified
by Justin Marquis A Nietzsche scholar in seminary, a Christian writing a blog invoking the pagan God of wine; what exactly is going on? Nietzsche himself proposed a dynamic and even violent opposition, expressed as Dionysus versus the Crucified, between the God of wine and Christianity. Dionysus the god of subterranean, sometimes violent urges, the…
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Returning to the Church. Why? What does it mean?
by Justin Marquis I would believe only in a god who could dance….Now I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath myself, now a god dances through me. –Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, I, “On Reading and Writing.” I keep starting to begin a blog post explaining my return to the church beginning…
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The Death of God and the Open Sea
The morning of September 11, 2001 when planes were flown into the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, Psalm 20 was on my lips “Some trust in chariots…, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.” I was in the process of pulling away from the Evangelical church, but the last straw was…
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The nihilism of serenity or how to learn to stop worrying and love fate
The alcoholic who has hit rock bottom prays to a higher power, “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.” We feel powerless before an indifferent and hostile universe that doles out suffering and disappointment no matter what choices we make. No one asks for serenity in the face of good and…
Dionysus on a Bike 