Nietzsche: A Militan Atheist Without Proof
Nietzsche: A Militant Atheist without Proof
The choice of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Early in his adolescence Nietzsche chose to reject the idea of the existence of God and remained a firm militant skeptic- atheist all his life.
Nietzsche, as a biased disbeliever, turned then to the universe to consolidate his personal choice of rejection: the world, life and religious arguments and find support for his disbelief. He rejects ‘cause and effect’ on the grounds that ‘we have seen nothing but images of effects and of causes that make it impossible to see one link more essential than that of succession.’ (1)
Hazard and Chaos as the Creator
He rejects final causes in nature considering that: ‘they were manifested when hazard has constituted the machinery’. (2) He rejects also real phenomena as well as abstractions:
‘We are found in a world in which we can live- admitting the presence of bodies, lines, surfaces, causes and effects, movement and inertia, form and content : these articles, without faith, no man can support to survive without it ! But this does not prove these articles. Life is not an argument:
amid the conditions of life, there can be error.’ (3)
Disorder, Disharmony and Disunity
Nietzsche rejects the existence of God by means of arguing against the arguments in favor of such existence like ‘order’, ‘universal laws’, ‘harmony and unity’ in the multiplicity, rejection of ‘hazard and chance’, rejection of ‘chaos’, ‘utility of everything’, ‘object and constancy as a