A God Torn to Pieces Quotes

“for two thousand years, decided to repeat the anthropological process leading to divinization. The doctrine that comes “from being burned at the stake” may be seen as the exact opposite of the doctrine of the burning bush in which God appeared to Moses; it is the sacrificial pyre on which the victim was burnt”
― Giuseppe Fornari, A God Torn to Pieces: The Nietzsche Case

“This text is a dramatic battlefield. Nietzsche tries to argue for rejecting the Crucifixion in general terms, referring to the stupidity of all persecutors “in the history of the world” (my italics). Obviously, since he was talking about Christians, he intended to refer to the persecutions of the early Christians but he would”
― Giuseppe Fornari, A God Torn to Pieces: The Nietzsche Case

“Alessandro Manzoni, who based his conception on a different awareness of Christianity and of the mechanisms governing the mob and desire. As a young man Nietzsche admired Manzoni's masterpiece I promessi sposi [The Betrothed]; at least, he said so, though the results are not apparent.63 Girard, however, was not thinking about what Nietzsche actually produced, so much as what he came across by chance as his whaler ploughed through far northern seas. In that sense he was a genuine explorer”
― Giuseppe Fornari, A God Torn to Pieces: The Nietzsche Case