Religion and the Rebel by Colin Wilson

Author:Colin Wilson [Wilson, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-23T04:00:00+00:00

This passage leads into an important question which had already begun to appear in The Outsider, that of the anti-Christian element in the ‘visionary’ beliefs of Nietzsche, Rimbaud, and Shaw. How is it to be reconciled with the definitely Christian element in such visionaries as Boehme, Pascal, Law?

Partly, I believe, the answer is that there is no true contradiction, only two widely differing approaches to the same problem. Christian mysticism lays great emphasis on the idea of submission and humility, love and pity. Nietzsche and Shaw revolted against these ideals. Nietzsche summarised his objections:

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.

What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.

... Pity stands opposed to the tonic emotions which heighten our vitality ... 12

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