I am regularly reminded of how close I came to nihilism in my government school and amoral eduation system, that great gift of free education to our parents and still going strong today for so many poor souls.
In The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzche held that the idea of good and evil was an unnatural addition (essentially Hebraic and Christian) to man's world , and a disturber of man's life and peace...abolish good and evil, and man will be free (Rushdoony).
This kind of thinking is what all of my educators were dripping with in the 60s and 70s. Refusing to show where this kind of thinking led, we were taught that we could study all subjects void of any god, especially the LORD of the Holy Scriptures. Slowly, I began to quietly ask myself, "but then, how do we know what is good and what is evil?" And quietly I began to conclued that there were no absolutes, and that therefore real life must be pursued in a vacuum of any judgment - except the judgment of meaninglessness and ultimate absurdity.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And the contrary is true: absent the fear of the Lord, there is no hope of wisdom, for there will be nothing to make sense of anything.
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