Nietzsche, possibly the most influential philosopher of modern times, was anti-rational. It could not have been otherwise, considering that he was a highly intelligent man. Rationalism blunts your mind. Graduates have turned this world into some sort of hell. I was born 1951 and I can testify that in those days the world was a much better place.

But today I want to discuss a little religion:

Someone before rightly objected that religion should not be studied because it should be available to illiterate people too. The answer is complicated but I will try to answer.
This is not a cause-effect situation.
In ancient past, scholars put forward heresies and attracted many people. The Church had to put things right. But often heresies were about the Holy Spirit, the divinity of Jesus and things like that, where illiterate people had very little to say. They just followed.
During the 2.000 years of Christianity, the Catholic Church issued possibly millions of pieces of literature that an illiterate Third World farmer would not understand.
For many centuries the Bible was only in latin, a language illiterate people would not know.
I agree that religion should be available to the less educated.
In fact, the apostles were very ignorant people who, until the Spirit was given to them, would never understand Jesus. He just kept rebuking them for thir hard head.
Plus, in order to protect people from pagan philosophies, the Church “invented” theology anb a dare anyone to understand that.
My view is that so far so many encyclicae and letters from the Vatican have been issued that the ordinary faithful do not know anymore where they stand.
On the contrary, Saint Francis made life easy for himself. He had gone to school because he was the son of a well-to-do family. In those days schooling was based of the latin Bible only, so he knew that well.
But he decided to follow the Gospel literally and did away with all the rest.
As often happens, Church people attacked him for that and Francis had doubts about himself. So he decided to go and see the Pope in order to have his opinion. They nearly prevented him from entering the vatican but after he did and expleined to the Pope what he wanted to do the Pope said: “This man is a giant”.
Nevertheless, christians are not called to follow Francis’ example.
In spiritual advancement there are several degrees.
I doubt God, on Judgement Day, will demand the illiterate Thrtid World farmer to show that he followed Francis’ path.
They Gospel irself says that to some God gives 30, to some 60 andto some 90.
Each one will have to answer proportionally to his capacity to understand and practice what he understands. If he practices religion properly, he will have the aid of the Spirit.

To be sure, one can achieve salvation by practicing very few rules.

Luke 7
Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman
36 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.
39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”
40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”
“Tell me, teacher,” he said.
41 “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii,[c] and the other fifty. 42 Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
43 Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.”
“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.
44 Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. 47 Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”
48 Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
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Luke 18

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray,one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’
13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
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Mark 12

The Greatest Commandment
28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[e] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’[f] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[g] There is no commandment greater than these.”
32 “Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. 33 To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
34 When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.

Syphilis came from America and in 1200 America had not been discovered yet.
I dont need a degree to know that.

Hi folks! Today is my last message. I want to tell you about something that happened to me.
1997 I was in London, renting a room in the home of an old-age Irish Catholic couple. Catholic inasmuch as they just went to mass on Sundays, as most Catholics only do for their faith.
To cut a long story short, the woman hated me because I would not screw the girls that happened to pass through the house. I do not let a woman use me. And also because I often mentioned religious subjects,
It was summer and I started having a cough. I did not give it much importance. But one morning I go to the kitchen for breakfast and the woman asks me how are you. "Fine" I said. And she said something that made me wonder: "Yes but you have to admit that you have a cough".
That sounded very strange to me. It was not the ordinary way of treating my cough. I left the house thinking that maybe I had a cough because the old lady was very old, could not clean the kitchen utensils properly and I had cought some bacteria.
I crossed the road to the nearby telephone booth because I wanted to ring my friend in Italy and discuss the odd event with her.
My friend and I talked and then something happened: a young boy was crossing the street, there was no traffic. When he got to the middle of the road he turned towards me. He was dressed in white t-shirt and jeans. On his t-shirt I could read this: "The trouble is in the drink".
I found an excuse to stop having breakfast at the old lady's and the cough immediately disappeared.

In 1986 I was working with a French architect. He wanted me to sand a huge steel arch that was in his property but I did not want to do that job because it was too dangerous. The scaffolding would not have had adequate protection and I did not want to fall off and die.
I did not say anything to him, but I prayed the Virgin: "Madonnina, I do not want to do that job."
It started to pour cats and dogs uninterruptedly for three days, so much so that the architect told me to go back home to Italy, that we would have done that job later.

The trouble with you rational atheists is that you do not link up to your soul, given that you believe there isn't one.
You only link up to your mind, even if - like everybody's mind, the mind produces a few good things and a lot of garbage thinking.
Most people use their minds and most people think differently on various subjects, which proves that the mind is not reliable.

You defend science, but are very wary of discussing Quantum Physics, which has taken much certainty away from scientific axioms.
You are on the wrong track, but you are happy that way. You dispute everything, except what the university taught you.
You believe in relativity, for example, but you have not tested the thesis, you just trust what was said to you (appeal to authority).
Science and religion are two completely different things: a retarded monkey should be able to understand that.
Please yourselves.

According to you: it took people who never existed to invent a long demented story (the Bible) the gist of which is that you have to practice fraternal charity (love) and to love your neighbor. Of course, with minds like yours this would never had happened.
And you call that logic!!! (hahaha)