Wasn't particularly intersted in Peter Watson's recent
The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God by Peter Watson (Feb 18, 2014)
(enjoyed his earlier German Genius, hence borrowing his book)
but reading the long Introduction got me hooked. Nice introduction on the theme of religious revival. And as he emphasizes, USA is unique in so many ways, can't generalize upon its phenomena. He persuasively argues that religious piety is proportional of lack of existential security.
Anyway, Nietzsche is inevitably the starting point of this book.
He was dismayed and at the same time struck by the irony that his book Zarathustra, in which he claimed that God is dead, was delayed publication by a rush order of Hymnals for the Easter or something :tape:
How ironic haha.
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