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On a practical level, Nietzsche feared the legacy of Christianity on Western society. To him, Christ represented the exemplar of “slave mentality,” dying as the ultimate sacrifice in to his oppressors.
On a mystical level, Christ’s sacrifice freed believers from the void—the fear of death 💀, filling it with a story of perfection and love.
Nietzsche’s fear was that the second—the ideal of perfection and love would be destroyed with God’s death, but the slave mentality would persist—it would simply be transferred to the new God of the State.
On a mystical level, Christ’s sacrifice freed believers from the void—the fear of death 💀, filling it with a story of perfection and love.
Nietzsche’s fear was that the second—the ideal of perfection and love would be destroyed with God’s death, but the slave mentality would persist—it would simply be transferred to the new God of the State.