Vattimo shares with Sun Ra an emphasis on myth-remaking and the radical potential of Christian nihilism, weakness that compels discipline in contrast to angry insistence on absolutes, inalienable rights, and underlying natures.

Secularization for Vattimo represents "the triumph of love over law, of kindness over obedience." Sun Ra said he hadn't ever experienced freedom and wasn't human but a dangerous angel. Vattimo interprets "kenosis – the emptying out of God into man that was the Incarnation – as a prefiguration of nihilism, as a wholesale and complete transfer of authority from the nonhuman to the human." #Richard_Rorty on #GianniVattimo #SunRa