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This 3 page paper is an explication of and response to Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay “The Anti-Christ.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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writing entitled "The Anti-Christ." Discussion Nietzsche begins his observations with a consideration of the Jews, who hoped that their god was strong and just, but found that he was not:
The old God could no longer do what he formerly could. One should have let him go" (Nietzsche 147). But they didnt let go, he argues; instead they changed their
concept of him, and held onto him, only now he was a God "bound by conditions" (Nietzsche 147). Once God was trapped in this fashion, the priests were able to
step in and use the new concept to their own advantage, preaching that misfortune was the punishment for disobeying God, or "sinning"; and good fortune was a reward for obedience
(Nietzsche). Sin, to Nietzsche, is an offensive concept, not morally, perhaps, but because it goes against his intelligence: he calls the concept "that most mendacious mode of interpretation of a
supposed moral world-order through which the natural concept cause and effect is once and for all stood on its head" (Nietzsche 147). Once cause and effect has been "banished
from the world by means of reward and punishment," then one has to look to an "un-natural" cause for what happens, and that un-natural cause is this new concept of
God (Nietzsche). This God is a "God who demands - in place of a God who helps, who devises means, who is fundamentally a word for every happy inspiration of
courage and self-reliance..." (Nietzsche 147). The loving God is gone, and so is "morality" in the sense the "conditions under which a nation lives and grows, no longer a nations
deepest instinct of life"; instead "morality" turns into something abstract, antithetical to life, a "fundamental degradation of the imagination," that brings with it an "evil eye for all things"
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