Murdoch and Nietzsche

Well as a Christian myself, it was hard not to disagree with both Nietzsche and Murdoch. However, after reading both texts, I have the weirdest feeling that I was actually more offended by what Murdoch had to say. While Murdoch seemed to take more of a non-bias approach, she seemed to be much more efficient in conveying her message. Nietzsche on the other hand was all over the place. His ideas may have been more forward and extreme but his delivery in my opinion was terrible. He contradicted himself had never seemed to focus on one main point. Murdoch was well organized and always had solid arguments that seemed more real instead of sounding like a maniac. She actually made me think about what she was saying. Not to say I agree with anything she says, I just felt she had a better way of reaching the audience.

            As I mentioned before I had a hard time agreeing with anything either of them had to say. Texts like these bring up a very important topic for me as well. I feel that in recent times, Christianity is used as the only religion to criticize. I think that people take advantage of the Christian religion as a whole because they know that Christians aren’t ones to fight back. Many outgoing atheists bite at the moment to politically destroy a Christian yet they never focus on other religions. What I don’t understand is that Christianity is criticized for its lack of morals. For example, women in the Jewish faith have to sit separate from the men when in a synagogue and in the Middle Eastern countries, where Islam in dominate, women are reduced to completely removing themselves from social interactions. I feel that people like Nietzsche and Murdoch need to take a step back and focus more on general discussions of religion instead of obviously singling out Christianity.