The Will to Power | (Ep. 403)
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 403. 403. So I want to talk about |
| 0:25.7 | Christian nationalism, but I want to talk about a little side show that's developed with |
| 0:32.7 | regard to Christian nationalism. Someone recently argued, recently said that Christian nationalism was about the |
| 0:41.6 | will to power, basically, the will to power. And he was an advocate of this, advocating a will to power. |
| 0:49.1 | We have to stop being sissies and embrace the will to power. |
| 0:55.7 | All right. |
| 0:56.7 | Nothing wrong with having a will. |
| 0:58.6 | And there's nothing wrong with power or authority. |
| 1:02.1 | But that phrase, will to power, is from Nietzsche, Frederick Nietzsche, who was sort of the headwaters of many of our modern and postmodern woes. |
| 1:15.3 | Nietzsche was a philosopher who knew how to write. He was a vigorous stylist and was pretty |
| 1:23.6 | insightful, at least when it came to what kind of shenanigans were going on all around |
| 1:29.6 | him. However, he was a god-hater. He was a god-hater from top to bottom, from front to back, |
| 1:35.4 | side to side. He was a god-hater. And ultimately, the will to power is the kind of lust that will never be content unless God is toppled from |
| 1:50.4 | his throne. It's not just someone with a will to power wanting to become the county commissioner |
| 1:57.0 | or the will to power someone wanting to become the mayor or the governor or the president. The will to power, someone wanted to become the mayor or the governor or the |
| 2:02.0 | president. The will to power is a craving, an ambitious lust, libido domenandi, that wants to |
| 2:11.8 | dominate everyone and everything and ultimately wants to reject God. Nietzsche has a famous passage where the people |
| 2:20.6 | have murdered God and they have trouble coming to grips with what it was that they have done. |
| 2:28.8 | So the willed power is a Nietzschean phrase. The will of power is a Nietzschean phrase. And on the dank right, there are |
| 2:36.5 | Nietzsche people who are followers of Nietzsche. It's not Christian. It's not good. It's not wholesome. |
| 2:43.7 | It's not copacetic. It's not okay. And one of the things we have to do is make sure that this will to power business |
| 2:53.9 | does not make it into an acceptable denominational variant of Christian nationalism. |
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