In “False Prophets,” a series of lectures on the misguided heralds of modernity delivered at St. Paul’s Cathedral in New York City, Gillis sought to set the record straight. In his view, Nietzschean godlessness represented all that was sick and morally depraved in modern life. Nietzsche advocated a topsy-turvy moral universe, and thus underscored the gross licentiousness and libertinism of modern culture. For Gillis, Nietzsche’s haunting vision of a post-Christian world required no interpretation. While true Christians aimed to build a common life based on the Golden Rule, Nietzsche sought to
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Against David Frenchism
