Tag: suffering

Nietzsche & Martin Luther King Jr. on Christian Suffering ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Beyond Good and Evil, targets Christianity, in the form most accessible to him: Catholicism. He critiques the virtues it fosters and the religion’s effects, particularly highlighting Christianity’s stance on suffering. On the other hand, Martin Luther King Jr. rejects Nietzsche’s accusations of Christian notions encouraging mediocrity and weakness. Despite both philosophers’ adherence […]

Ash Wednesday and the consolation of suffering

TODAY is Ash Wednesday, which marks the first day of Lent. It is traditionally observed with fasting or abstinence from meat, and many Christians attend services at which their foreheads are marked with ash as a sign of grief, both in the sense of mourning and in expressing sorrow for sins. Lent, Holy Week and […]