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Nietzsche thinks that the word idiot best describes Jesus. [18] Nietzsche asserts that the psychological reality of redemption was a "new way of life, not a new faith". [19] It is "[t]he deep instinct which prompts the Christian how to live so that he will feel that he is 'in heaven'". [19] The Christian is known by his acts.
"God is dead" (German: Gott ist tot [ɡɔt ɪst toːt] ⓘ; also known as the death of God) is a statement made by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.The first instance of this statement in Nietzsche's writings is in his 1882 The Gay Science, where it appears three times.
Thus originates what Nietzsche calls the "slave revolt in morality", which, according to him, begins with Judaism (§7), for it is the bridge that led to the slave revolt, via Christian morality, of the alienated, oppressed masses of the Roman Empire (a dominant theme in The Antichrist, written the following year).
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that Christianity fosters a kind of slave morality which suppresses the desires which are contained in the human will. [8] The Russian Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, and several other modern revolutionary movements have also led to the criticism of Christian ideas.
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Nietzsche postulates that only one who is weak, sickly or ignoble would subscribe to such a belief. Nietzsche goes on to relate this obsession with the non-physical realm to Christianity and the concept of Heaven. Nietzsche indicates that the belief in the Christian God is similar to the decadence and hatred of life. [10]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, poet, cultural critic and composer who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14]
The Homeric hero is the strong-willed man, and the classical roots of the Iliad and Odyssey exemplified Nietzsche's master morality. He calls the heroes "men of a noble culture", [8] giving a substantive example of master morality. Historically, master morality was defeated, as Christianity's slave morality spread throughout the Roman Empire.