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“The modern age made the human will the arbiter of all things. In late modernity, following Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), we have reduced life to a struggle of the will. Modernity has consistently attempted to make God come to heel, as if it were possible, to make his will subservient to ours. This is an ancient impulse. It is the program of hell, of course, repackaged for every age.”