Review of The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 16 Feb 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

"Götterdämmerung" ("Twilight of the Gods", Wagner, 1876), "God is dead" (Nietzsche, "The Gay Science", 1882, Section 125). But for rational theology is it possible that God, monotheism or polytheism, sunsets or dies? No, he would be a false god, that is, an idol. Nietzsche specified it in 1888 with "Twilight of the Idols" ("Götzen-Dämmerung"). And is it possible to survive without believing or having faith in something? Again the answer is no. Objection similar to that addressed by Lakatos to Popperian epistemology: it is useless to falsify a theory if one does not have an alternative, since otherwise one clings to the refuted research program(me). Nietzsche had already sensed this and so wrote the "Zarathustra" between 1883 and '85 precisely to replace Christianity with Zoroastrianism: "The idol is dead, long live the idol!". The conclusion is that, as long as things remain like this (Ernst Bloch would have said: "rebus sic stantibus et non fluentibus"), to be scandalized by such a pair of televangelists is a miserable scapegoat hunt: the situation was not better before them and it not improved after, for example with the prolife movement. Btw: the biopic? Flat direction (Michael Showalter comes from the television serials and it shows), Jessica Chastain self-produces hoping for the Oscar thanks to the exhausting make-up sessions she underwent.