{"id":318,"date":"2015-03-21T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2015-03-20T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:01:43","slug":"the-will-to-power-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Will to Power<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><i>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto<\/i><br \/>I: Criticism of Religion<\/p>\n<p><b>&#0167;250<\/b> &#0160; Let us see what the \u201cgenuine Christian\u201d 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 &#8212; in summa, the whole of culture: his object is to deprive it of a good conscience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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 &#8212; and that it recast their submissiveness and failures as virtues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>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)<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>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)<\/ul>\n<p>Early Christianity was, in no small part, a vengeance cult animated by malice toward their betters &#8212; and if you pick-up any newspaper, it&#8217;s easy to see that it is still there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoI: Criticism of Religion &#0167;250 &#0160; Let us see what the \u201cgenuine Christian\u201d does with all the things which his instincts forbid: he sullies and suspects the beautiful, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}