Eis por que, aos olhos de Nietzsche, quando nossos republicanos herdeiros das Luzes se dizem ateus, ou mesmo materialistas, na verdade, permanecem crentes!

the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth);

Atheism became really possible in that abnormal time; for atheism is abnormality. It is not merely the denial of a dogma. It is the reversal of a subconscious assumption in the soul; the sense that there is a meaning and a direction in the world it sees.