[justshutupandtakeit]

So you would say from personal experience that The Exorcist is not fiction.

It is hard in reading the later works of Nietzsche not to believe one is hearing the voice of the Anti-Christ. Nietzsche was the descendent of generations of protestant ministers and came to believe that God had deserted the world " God is Dead" and that this coming age was the Age of Nihilism. We beat back Nihilism's greatest products and powers, Nazism and communism, now we face a far more subtle form. Can we beat that back? Can we exorcise this malignent demon at the very heart of our culture?

[Seydlitz]

Actually, Nietzsche was a bitter opponent of nihilism. His statement "God is dead" referred to the demise of true faith in Europe (if you've ever read Nietzsche, you will recall that the phrase is told as part of a stury in which a man is searching for manifestations of true religious faith among contemporary Europeans). Given the Europeans' record over the last 100 years, it was a very prescient observation.