Metallica, Nietzsche, and Marx on The Immorality of Morality

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In songs like “Leper Messiah” and “The God that Failed,” Metallica charges religion with moral failure and in this way connects itself with a tradition in philosophy stretching back through thinkers like Voltaire, Hume, Lucretius, Socrates, and Xenophanes. According to these philosophers, what religions prescribe as morally “good” is actually morally bad or wrong. What religions claim to be “righteous” is instead corrupt. What they portray as “pious” is in fact perverse. What they present as “truth” is in reality deceit. Since religion has had such a wide effect on common ideas about morality in our society, what passes for sound morality across society generally is more often a putrid tangle of immorality.