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Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no god.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Precisely This Is Godliness--that There Are Gods,

Friedrich Nietzsche
Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no god.
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What the latins have done in this text (1 john v, 7) the greeks have done to paul (1 tim. iii, 16). they now read, "great is the mystery of godliness; god manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, jerome as well as the rest, read, "great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." our english version makes it yet a little stronger. it reads, "great is the mystery of godliness: god was manifest in the flesh."
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Where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death
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The gods have fled, i know. my sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. i do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. if anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. i believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
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The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.
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If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.
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But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. men have left god not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. that men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.the church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?
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