/lit/ - Literature

>>14247151
For Nietzsche, putting a premium on greatness was the naturally aristocratic thing to do.The Christian focus on goodness undermined the necessary brurality entailed in greatness. Christian charity towards the weak bent society to the demands of the weak. By contrast the aristocratic rule of the strong for the sake of the strong lifted culture ever higher and this rule entails a kind of brutal indifference and contempt towards the weak. Thus true human cultural greatnesss demands that we return to the beast, a lesson Nietzsche claims that we learn from history.
For Nietzsche, Christianity was a slave religion precisely because Christ demanded that we choose goodness over greatness even to the point of choosing goodness over life itself.But since life is will to power, then Christianity amounted to selfdestruction.
cont.

>>12981796
LUKE 22,35
Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?”

“Nothing,” they answered.

He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one!

>is the son of god himself, all knowing, all powerful
>never once thinks to say "hey, btw, the earth revolves around the sun so don't burn anybody at the stake who tries to tell you this later on."
>or "oh yeah I almost forgot, slavery is wrong and here's the formula for penicillin."
makes you think.