Critics of Religions

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 132. Chapters: Alfred Rosenberg, Ayn Rand, Bill Maher, Brian Flemming, Christopher Hitchens, Darrel Ray, David Mills (author), David Silverman (activist), Embrico of Mainz, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Carlin, Gustav Landauer, Jack Kevorkian, James McDonald (writer), Joaquin Trincado Mateo, John Lennon, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Martin Luther, Pat Condell, Polly Toynbee, PZ Myers, Richard Carrier, Richard Dawkins, Roger Waters, Sam Harris (author), Seth MacFarlane, Trey Parker. Excerpt: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; German: October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony, and aphorism. Nietzsche's key ideas include the "death of God," the Ubermensch, the eternal recurrence, the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism, and the will to power. Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation," which involves questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent and radical those views might be. His influence remains substantial within philosophy, notably in existentialism, post-modernism, and post-structuralism, as well as outside it. His radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth has been the focus of extensive commentary, especially in the continental tradition. Nietzsche began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. In 1869, at the age of twenty-four he was appointed to the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel (the youngest individual to have held this position), but resigned in the summer of 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life. At the age of forty-five in 1889 he suffered a...