Rev. Robert Loring preached that “Nietzsche is more like strong medicine than like pleasant food.… Like many old-fashioned tonics they often leave a bitter taste in the mouth. There seems, however, to be this difference; while the old-fashioned tonic had printed on the bottle, ‘Shake before Taking,’ in the case of Nietzsche you first take, and then you shake.”63 In Nietzsche’s bracing writings on religion, liberal Protestant ministers and theologians discovered a valuable moral stimulant that would energize Christians and an intellectual astringent that would enable them to do some
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