Ministers who believed that Nietzsche aided Christians in their search for a more meaningful spirituality argued with Hardin that challenges to the faith from a critic of Nietzsche’s “intellectual caliber” could only be a “tonic in its effects.”62 In a series of sermons on Nietzsche for the First Unitarian Church of Milwaukee in 1919, 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
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