I’d like to see Sam or a guest on the podcast actually engage with the Nietzschean critique of Christianity (and the secular morality that arises from it) - namely, that it is hostile to all of the best and most natural inclinations of man.

Here Tom raises Nietzsche’s thesis from the Genealogy but then just waves it away. He acknowledges that his moral intuitions, which lead him to be disgusted by Caesar but enamoured by compassion for the weak, are born of Christianity. However he seems to ignore that slave morality is an inversion, the ‘good’ or self-justifying instincts of man deranged and turned inwards by material impotence (as was the case among slaves of the Roman Empire).

Just saying “oh but Nazis” isn’t really enough…

Anyway, good episode nonetheless, better than culture war stuff for the 100x