Supposing truth were a woman

"Supposing truth were a woman - what then?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Preface to "Beyond Good and Evil"

Before he even begins to discredit the last 2 or 3 centuries of philosophy as superstition he gives you an beautiful little maxim for pursuing truth. Court it like a woman! God's shameless. He inserts himself in every little thing. The devil's equally shameless, but not nearly as clever. God winks at you but the devil smiles.

Nietzsche was smart, whatever you say about him, unlike the stupid atheists out there who simply don't get it. You can either accept that there is a omniscient, omnipotent and eternal God who loves and desires his creation, or you can deny it. It's your prerogative, but once you make that choice you have to follow through with it. You have to realize that nothing temporal can make you eternally happy - atheists give up their ability to pursue eternal happiness. It's no different than geometry where if you deny Euclid's "superstitions" you get a whole different set of things. To say that one is better than the other you'd have to accept that all men desire happiness, and apparently that's a difficult jump for some cats. Well, he's German, so I'll have to get back to you after I read it twice more.

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I feel bad for guys like St. Patrick and St. Valentine that have their feast days taken away from them. Happens to Jesus twice every year! It's not even Valentine's feast day anymore! Stupid world. Well, at least we know God really loves us: I can't think of any other reason he'd truly become man; the same man who strips him from everything they touch.