Identifying Nietzsche as the spokesperson for modern critics “who have seen that Christian ethics have no rock-basis apart from Christian dogma,” a writer for the Living Age argued that Nietzsche had it right: without belief in Jesus Christ as savior, the morals of Christianity made no sense. As Nietzsche observed, secular moderns sought to exalt the ideals of humanitarianism and democracy while forsaking the Christian faith from which they sprang. Thus, it was liberal moderns who proved to be even more timid than religious fundamentalists, for their whole ethical worldview was now founded on
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