Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
I: Criticism of Religion§250 Let us see what the “genuine Christian” does with all the things which his instincts forbid: he sullies and suspects the beautiful, the splendid, the rich, the proud, the self-reliant, the knowledgeable, the powerful — in summa, the whole of culture: his object is to deprive it of a good conscience.
Remember the cultural anthropology of the Jesus movement, that it was born in the underclass, that it seethed amongst the losers, the failed, the ineffectual, the discarded — and that it recast their submissiveness and failures as virtues:
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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. (Mark 10:25)
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But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. (Matthew 5:39)
Early Christianity was, in no small part, a vengeance cult animated by malice toward their betters — and if you pick-up any newspaper, it’s easy to see that it is still there.