>>1438
>Isn't the thing about Nietzsche is that he drove himself insane in the later years because he realized that, without religion, life has no purpose, and he spent the remainder of his life trying to find a purpose for why people should go on living at all if we're nothing more than highly evolved apes that all eventually die and fade away?
Yes. He didn't hate Christianity either, he hated the Church's authority at times. However, despite what
>>1439 claims, his views weren't "early". He found no answer as to why you should continue on without God, without delving into mindless hedonism or some such degeneracy. Some (real) Atheists have found a way to deal with it, to come to terms without being degenerates - but the majority of them haven't. They're just hedonists. And the majority of people can not grok life without a higher purpose. Presently, they are adopting various flavors of Marxian thought, the Covid Cult, the Climate Change Cult, the "Blame Whitey" Identity Politics Cult (rather than going white/black/asian/whatever nationalist and doing their own thing in micro with those of their own race), etc. There are a lot of "secular" cults, anon. They're not really secular, they're simply refusing the religious/cult label despite having the hallmarks of it. An old cult would be, unironically, the Capitalism cult. Not that trade is bad or that you aren't entitled to the sweat of your brow. But that it is used to justify why multi-national corporations can just do what they want to get the cheapest labor elsewhere, or even (legally or illegally) import that labor, and also justifying international capital/finance's attempts to play God with the world. There are still libertarians who are merely unthinking co-conspirators to leftists who have helped pave the way for more government control (by agreeing to get rid of this or that which "limits" civil liberties in some respects, but lead to greater degeneracy and greater corruption. read "Democracy: The God That Failed" by Hoppe) and refusing to have a friend/enemy distinction (believing you can "talk it out" with people who have no problem with you being imprisoned for your beliefs, or worse). These same libertarians defend megacorps and intl finance.