Morality as Anti Nature

Morality as Anti Nature

Nietzsche has many reasons for despising Christianity: he feels

that it points out the wrong values for mankind, a weakness, and false

morality. As a religion, Nietzsche felt Christianity is adverse to truth-

seeking and scientific question; it replaced these values with blind

belief. Nietzsche's atheism is somewhat unusual, in that he takes the

non-existence of God as a given, not thinking twice about the proof of

God. The possible reality of a god is most of the time ignored as a

ridiculous notion by Nietzsche. In his writing he seems mush more

interested to analyze the philosophical and psychological foundations

of religious belief.

There are several key Christian ideas that Nietzsche dislikes in

particular. Nietzsche tries to separate each concept and criticize each

in turn. In Christianity it is said that, "each person has an immortal

soul and that all such souls are equal in the eyes of God are mainly

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interesting, and derive their power by appealing both to the anti-

aristocratic sentiment of the lower classes, as well as to individual

egos and their fear of death". Furthermore it is mention by Jesus that,

"the Christian soul serves a multifold purpose: as the locus for the

transcendence of all earthly behavior, the vehicle into the beyond of

heaven's immortality, and the grand equalizer by which the lowest

criminal has the same worth in God's eyes as the greatest king or

hero".