Martin Heidegger Ponderings Black Notebooks

Everything is out-and-out imitation, yet with a cleverness stemming from centuries of practice, such that it can one day, with the ever-increasing ignorance, pass itself off as “creative.” Corresponding to this modern rescue of cultural Christianity are the “struggle” against and the “overcoming” of “Christianity.” These derive from an empty enlightenment or from a half-understood Nietzscheanism or from both and merely repeat the cultural Christianity in an inversion or on a much lower plane—(building in advance, for a “faith” and for a requirement of faith, a “spiritual world” mixed from all philosophies, dripping with “seriousness,” and overflowing with “decisions,” according to which everything is already decided by way of a decisionlessness). The rescue of cultural Christianity and the semblance of anti-Christian worldviews—belong | together. Their dovetailing is a sign that the conscious and unconditional instituting of the modern anthropormorphizing of the human being has started as a closed process. This dovetailing makes possible the “triumphant parade of technology.”

Black Notebooks 1938–1939

Heidegger, Martin. Ponderings VII–XI: 7-11 (Studies in Continental Thought) (p. 269). Indiana University Press. Kindle Edition.