{"id":296,"date":"2015-03-19T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2015-03-18T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T20:30:19","slug":"the-will-to-power-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"The Will to Power<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto<\/i>
I: Criticism of Religion<\/p>\n

§248<\/b>   Christian moral quackery. Pity and contempt succeed each other at short intervals, and at the sight of them I feel as indignant as if I were in the presence of the most despicable crime. Here error is made a duty a — virtue; misapprehension has become a knack, the destructive instinct is systematised under the name of \u201credemption\u201d; here every operation becomes a wound, an amputation of those very organs whose energy would be the prerequisite to a return of health. And in the best of cases no cure is achieved; all that is done is to exchange one set of evil symptoms for another set —<\/p>\n

And this pernicious nonsense, this systematised profanation and castration of life, passes for holy and sacred; to be in its service, to be an instrument of this art of healing, that is to say, to be a priest, is to be rendered distinguished, reverent, holy and sacred. God alone could have been the Author of this supreme art of healing; redemption is only possible as a revelation, as an act of grace, as an unearned gift, made by the Creator Himself. <\/p>\n

Proposition I: Spiritual healthiness is regarded as morbid and creates suspicion — <\/p>\n

Proposition II: The prerequisites of a strong, exuberant life, strong desires and passions, are reckoned as objections against strong and exuberant life. <\/p>\n

Proposition III: Everything which threatens danger to man and which can overcome and ruin him, is evil — and must be rejected and should be torn root and branch from his soul. <\/p>\n

Proposition IV: Man converted into a weak creature, inoffensive to himself and others, crushed by humility and modesty and conscious of his weakness, in fact, the \u201csinner\u201d — this is the desirable type and one which one can produce by means of a little spiritual surgery —<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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