Nietzsche's passionate atheism was the making of me

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12. Your 'bifurcation of the culture' seems to only apply to the right

As you say, the left is in between - so, if you consider the whole culture, there is no a bifurcation, but a continuum. And I don't see why that puts the left in an 'uncomfortable' position. It makes the right the extremes (Randians on one side, and theocrats on the other) , and the left the desirable golden mean of Aristotle - people who want a society that works together, but does it for the sake of people in this life, not a god described by a book of unknown authorship that demands it must not be challenged.

You do say in the other post that a search for 'truth' should be good; and that is something I'd agree with. Nietzsche didn't concentrate on the truth of whether there are gods or not; instead he thought people were better off not worshipping, because he thought being a follower was inherently demeaning. Modern atheists do put an emphasis on truth, and find big problems with the 'leap to faith' that being religious requires - that you have to believe in gods without the evidence.