Pious Nietzsche & the Dissonance of Christian life

Nietzsche is famously known by many as "die-hard" atheist and a crude existentialist philosophers, portrayed in his writing toward the subject of divinity. "God is dead" was the proclamation he made which have becoming so iconic and popular in the modern world. He perpetually critique the phenomena of religion as he conclude that Human are suffered from "religious Neurosis" to which a deadly asylum will be their rest.

Bringing those facts about him, some scholars has concluded that he is not an atheist in any kind of the the sense but quite unique for he goes deeply not only to deny the existence of God intellectually yet at the same time he also reoriented others to follow their own subjectivity, to exercise the power of the will to the upmost potential.

Despite of his vivid credibility of being the arch enemy of Judeo-Christian and religion alike, there is one sharp statement of him whereby Christian can actually ponder deep and gain some insight. If we are not reactive, we can see his word as a "pious voice-like" that will bring us to an awakening and shocking realization of  the dissonance that often occurs in our life.

It is a pious voice because it is a honest reflection on what happened rather than a flourish spice he add to amplify his superfluous ego and hate. Nietzsche goes on to says in His book,

"In truth, there was only one Christian, and He died on the Cross" (AC 39; KSA 6:211-12)

Apparently, christian by definition is one who portrays the theology, spirit and the ethics of Christ. A Christian is not only about what they believe about Christ, but how those knowledge transformed and moved them to bring about a real applications and implications."A Brand-New life", living in alliance with the Gospel of the Kingdom Jesus announced, as Todd D. Hunter described. Yet in reality, lot of people live in a very dissonance life. They think they are christian but in fact, they aren't. No wonder, Christian can be a stumbling block to other people especially for non-believer. The dissonance happened, most of the time because they are walking into a wrong path. The path should be started from the cross to glory. Not from the other way round. In fact, to start from the path of glory is to looked God from the back of His cross. Moreover, people who walk from the path of glory are looking with the visible eyes of reason more than the invisible eyes of faith. As the result, the pursuit of happiness has became their highest value's, Luxury is their vice. Are those attributes resembling the Cross at all? Nay! Nietzsche's word might be true for if we love Christ but not His Cross, we cannot be said as a Christian. It is truly a wake up call for us. Nietzche's pious voice should make us aware and realize again that Christ also want us to be more like Him (1 Peter 2:21). We cannot let  Christ to be the only true "Christian" out there, symbolically speaking, as Nietzsche has pointed out. To live a crucicentric life is only visible through the cross not above the cross (Theologia Crusis). This is the highest values, as Martin Luther best concludes, "God can reveal Himself only in concealment-in the humility and the shame of Cross".