morosoph wrote today at 10:39 PMNietzsche had a theology, but it was anti-theistic and pantheistic.Nietzsche thought that transcendental theology is false, and that this universe was a war; the war of wills seeking dominance, including will that manifests in the mass, rather than the individual. Nietzsche decidedly sides with the individual against the mass, and therefore in favour of genius against mass religion.Nietzsche puts the self-defining man first, and considers the idea of a common god not only false, but harmful, for the mass is defined as "good", and the groundbreaking individual as "evil", being separated from the god of the mass by his deviance. To the theist, Hell is separation from God; but to Nietzsche, Hell is other people; that is: the mass, as opposed to the friend.If God existed, Nietzsche would be his enemy, seeking to wrest self-determination in the face of God's design. The eternal recurrence has a dual meaning in my view. First, there is a simple misunderstanding born of the deterministic physics of the time, where it was believed that the universe would repeat itself over immense stretches of time; but I think that there is another aspect that hasn't been outdated with advances in physics, and that is simply what is meant by the phrase "history repeats itself".Nietzsche's conception of the Overman represents one who has expelled religion from his being, replacing god's will within with his own will to power, and to transcendence of that same will, so that he rises beyond good and evil; a place where he can see several islands of morality "from above".To Nietzsche, it is Christianity that is nihilistic, for it denies this life, diluting it in eternity. Nietzsche's conception of the Eternal Recurrence is to multiply up the present so that it contends with eternity: to replace the diluting presence of an infinite God and an infinite life with a repetition of the same choices, the same actions, so as to replace the humbleness of the believer with the arrogance of genius.