Nietzsche's Argument To White

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Nietzsche relates a lot to White in the sense of things not mattering and if nothing matters therefore God doesn’t exist. Black mentions the bible to White, as a book he reads. White comments back in he has never and that book and its not true. “The Bible is full of cautionary tales. All of literature, for that matter. Telling us to be careful. Careful of what? Taking the wrong turn. A wrong path…” (McCarthy, 31) Here he tells Black that we should read that book and follow it, we eventually have only one path to go down too, compared to Black who believes we should be holy to the Bible as his literacy reference. Nietzsche is not a Christian and therefore believes in instincts, while Black is Christian with a few regrets in life, yet manage

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