Month: October 2024

Nietzsche and Pascal

Here are the last two paragraphs from an article by Alexander Riley in the latest (November/December 2024) issue of Touchstone magazine (page 17): Nietzsche admired Pascal greatly, though he also criticized him, and considered him perhaps the most tragic victim of Christianity. Like Nietzsche, Pascal gazed at the infinity of indifferent time and space. Unlike … [Read more…]

A Couple of Short Items To Start the Month

I’ve discussed here on this blogsite my suggestion that the Lord’s Prayer is structured as a chiasm, including an argument that the center of the Prayer (promising that we will forgive others) is especially important, as is characteristic of chiasms.  So I wanted to note that I recently discovered that it is commonly noted that … [Read more…]