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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (18600)	11/15/2004 12:56:05 PM
From: exdaytrader76	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Nietzsche's insistence that the decay of religion (the "death of God") requires that humanity take responsibility for setting its own moral standards That is the core difference between Nietzche and the Bible, which states that relativism is the problem and not the solution. Vain hedonism seems futile to me. What happens when all of your senses get satisfied? What then? If it were some sort of nirvana, then rock stars would be spiritual leaders. Kurt Cobain would be a great martyr, not a sadly premature ending. What if you are born as Sheik of Brunei and get to sit in the garden with forty virgins all day every day? What then? It would have to get old after a while. Also, conveniently, hedonism is a snug fit with capitalism and consumerism.