Additionally, as a critic of organized religion (seriously, I can’t stress how anti-religion he was), Nietzsche was concerned over how existing ideas of reason and morality were fixated on what’s next. He didn’t believe this life, and our good behavior in it, should be driven by ideas of God or a long-term plan to get into some preferable afterlife—or a “true world,” as this heaven-like state was often referred to.

