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For more information, please see: [https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j24_1/j24_1_106-112.pdf Nietzsche, the man who took on God and lost!] and [http://www.iep.utm.edu/nietzsch/ Friedrich Nietzsche - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

For more information, please see: [https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j24_1/j24_1_106-112.pdf Nietzsche, the man who took on God and lost!] and [http://www.iep.utm.edu/nietzsch/ Friedrich Nietzsche - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]

== Friedrich Nietzsche's childhood religiosity ==

== Friedrich Nietzsche's childhood religiosity and his later reaction to it ==

Ewin James wrote in the ''The Gleaner'':

Ewin James wrote in the ''The Gleaner'':

{{Cquote|[[Will Durant]], in ''The Story of Philosophy'', says of Nietzsche's childhood: "His school-mates called him 'the little minister' and one of them described him as a Jesus in the temple. It was his delight to seclude himself and read the Bible, or read it to others so feelingly as to bring tears to their eyes" ( p. 438).

{{Cquote|[[Will Durant]], in ''The Story of Philosophy'', says of Nietzsche's childhood: "His school-mates called him 'the little minister' and one of them described him as a [[Jesus]] in the temple. It was his delight to seclude himself and read the Bible, or read it to others so feelingly as to bring tears to their eyes" ( p. 438).

Then as a teenager, he declared he no longer believed God exists. But was he truthful? I think not. He was just fighting against the God he had so lovingly worshipped as a child. Durant says. "He attacked Christianity because there was so much of its moral spirit in him." (p. 438).<ref>[http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20170123/ewin-james-atheism-denial-reality  Atheism- A denial of reality] by Ewin James, ''The Gleaner''</ref>}}

Then as a teenager, he declared he no longer believed God exists. But was he truthful? I think not. He was just fighting against the God he had so lovingly worshipped as a child. Durant says. "He attacked Christianity because there was so much of its moral spirit in him." (p. 438).<ref>[http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20170123/ewin-james-atheism-denial-reality  Atheism- A denial of reality] by Ewin James, ''The Gleaner''</ref>}}