quip of the week

nietzsche thinking hard about the implications of a "dead God"

I have recently come across a very interesting passage in a book that I am reading right now, entiltled "Radical Orthodoxy." The book is very good, but it is also one of those books that you have to read with a discerning mind--which is a good thing really. Nonetheless, it has some great insights. Here is a passage that I think is really profound: (p.s. nihilism = the belief in nothing, i.e. everything is absurd and meaningless. humanism = man is the center of all, i.e. man can with reason alone, uncover truth. Humanism has defined culture--well, ever since the fall--but especially in the past few centuries of Western culture.)

"Nihilism is nearer to the truth than humanism, because it recognizes the unknown and inderterminate in every reality and because it is true that without God there is nothing. One can add that humanism is nihilism unable to recognixze itself and therefore also naive or cynical or both."