April 6th, 2008
The Marquis De Sade, Nietzsche And Secular Purism
Compte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade (1740 - 1814), better known as the Marquis de Sade, was a famous French atheist and writer. He spent 27 years of his adult life in the prisons and insane asylums of the French monarchy, the French Republic, the revolutionary terror and Napoleonic Imperial France.
In short, his sexual perversion and cruelty was restrained by every form of French government of his time. He was openly atheist in his belief and unrestrained in morals. His sexual perversions involved inflicting pain on his lovers. The word ’sadism’ is his contribution to our language.