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  • Essay / Is Christianity a slave morality? - 989

    It was Friedrich Nietzsche who called Christianity slave morality. How can a religion that is said to teach love of neighbor, promote world peace, and avoid sin be accused of harboring the slavery of the character so feverishly explained by Nietzsche? Many would denounce Nietzsche as an evil madman, whose ideals were consistent with those of Nazi Germany. It would be wrong to assume this about Nietzsche, just as it would be wrong to assert that Christianity is not a slave morality. For it is defined as to what constitutes a slave morality which, to me, leaves no doubt that Nietzsche was right in more ways than one. It is because of a restrained and deep resentment towards the master that the means which constitute Christianity are a utility in which the master is not conquered but made equal. In order to fully understand the depth to which Nietzsche was right, one must think outside of the preconditioned assumptions so easily acquired from society. Nietzsche was an atheist. To better understand the meaning of the “slave morality” proposed by Nietzsche, one only needs to look through the eyes in which the idea was proposed. We must first understand that Nietzsche was not a radical denouncing the Christian faith and doing all kinds of evil. things. He was not a Nazi and opposed the Nationalist Party. He was born in 1609 and died in August 1900. During his lifetime, Roosevelt was elected the same year his father died, the Civil War broke out, Pope Pius IX issued a syllabus errorum, Germany expelled the Jesuits and before his death Pop Leo XIII declared Testem Benevolentiae in which he condemned “Americanism”2. It was a time very different from our current time. I was first introduced... in the middle of the article...... in front of the master's morality class. Instead, they experience deep resentment, unlike the master morality in which anger is either acted upon or quickly forgotten. In this sense, Nietzsche describes the morality of slaves as useful. This means that instead of directly confronting or conquering and being above the master, through guilt and other means, they assimilated the master, making them equals. This is evident in the fact that the Jews were saviors, Christianity built from Judaism, the Romans persecuted the Christians, and then look at Rome now. Who is in charge of the Vatican is the Catholic Church. Time and again, religion and its analogues have faced extreme adversity, but through the teachings of religion, slave morality is able to endure. Nietzsche endorsed a value system that went beyond the boundaries of good and evil. In a call for a better humanity as a whole.