In the quest for an authentic life, Friedrich Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard identified similar problems in their mid 19th Century societies. Empty, pointless, repetitive lives determined by the pursuit of pleasure or thoughtless adherence to religious authority had robbed life of its vitality and purpose. Though while they had similar diagnoses, their remedies were completely different. One ultimately accepted there was a God and it wasn't him, while the other continued the long line of thought formed within the Satanic Impulse, and asserted humanity as the new gods.