blake johnson

The Humble Boast: Ignorance Is A Two-Way Street is a post about the frequent mis-categorization of all religious people as right wingers. What I found interesting, though, was this paragraph at the end:

“Religion” itself - depending on your interpretation of the Greek - means “reading” or “re-reading.” I prefer the latter translation, which implies that religious study requires constant analyzation, and then re-analyzation. This not only applies to religious texts, but life in general. Understanding - in the broad, esoteric sense - is gained through constant evaluation.

Something that occurred to me while reading this post is that the author’s interpretation of religion as “re-reading” and continual reevaluation is strikely similar to Nietzsche’s process of “becoming” where man attempts to continually remake himself. Of course, it is rather amusing when we find a similarity between religion and Nietzsche’s philosophy.