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Can you please explain Nietzsche's view of Christian values!?
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Christianity and morality
In his book Anti-Christ, Nietzsche fights against how Christianity has become an ideology set forth by institutions like churches, and how churches have failed to represent the life of Jesus!. Nietzsche finds it important to distinguish between the religion of Christianity and the person of Jesus!. Nietzsche attacked Christian religion, as represented by churches and institutions, for what he called its "transvaluation" of healthy instinctive values!. Transvaluation consists of the process by which one can view the meaning of a concept or ideology from a "higher" context!. Nietzsche went beyond agnostic and atheistic thinkers of the Enlightenment, who simply regarded Christianity as untrue!. He claimed that the Apostle Paul may have deliberately propagated Christianity as a subversive religion (a "psychological warfare weapon") within the Roman Empire as a form of covert revenge for the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and of the Second Temple in 70 AD during the Jewish War of 66 - 73 AD!. Nietzsche contrasts the Christians with Jesus, whom he regarded as a unique individual, and argues he established his own moral evaluations!. As such, Jesus represents a kind of step towards his ideation of the übermensch!. Ultimately, however, Nietzsche claims that, unlike the übermensch, who embraces life, Jesus denied reality in favor of his "kingdom of God!." Jesus's refusal to defend himself, and subsequent death, logically followed from this total disengagement!. Nietzsche goes further to analyze the history of Christianity, finding it has progressively distorted the teachings of Jesus more and more!. He criticizes the early Christians for turning Jesus into a martyr and Jesus's life into the story of the redemption of mankind in order to dominate the masses, and finds the Apostles cowardly, vulgar, and resentful!. He argues that successive generations further misunderstood the life of Jesus as the influence of Christianity grew!. By the 19th century, Nietzsche concludes, Christianity had become so worldly as to parody itself — a total inversion of a world view which was, in the beginning, nihilistic, thus implying the "death of God!."

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he did not say that, he just thinks that the catholic church is wrong in imposing and defining who God really is, cause we could not really know who GOd is, the bible is not enough proof to explain what God's characteristics are, he just thinks it would be better not to talk about GOd because we can never justify our claims, religion and faith is always a private matter that should not be imposed of us, like its crazy when catholics always tell us that homosexuals should die because some weird person wrote it in the bible,/Www@QuestionHome@Com

do you really think that actual Jesus match a painted by Christianity picture of Him!? There is two figures represent Jesus, real one which is known as his short and simple teaching and another one image of which is worshiped in a heads of believers!.Which one is Anti-Christ!?Www@QuestionHome@Com