Master/slave morality

[Received]

Don't you see? That's exactly what would appeal to someone who hated aristocrats and was abused by them. Nietzsche takes yours as a religion founded on resentment.

And one could easily turn the phrase by saying that religious people take Nietzsche as founded on projected ressentiment, and in many cases they'd be right. There are resentful Christians and there are courageous Christians; for every John MacArthur there is a Dietrich Bonhoeffer. There is nothing inherent to probably any of the teachings Christianity is founded on that lines up with Nietzsche's statements, but there is a world of applicability for Nietzsche's distaste given the false attempts at living like Christ.

 

[Gracchus]

If that's true then show me in the New Testament, or in any ECF, where any type of social revolution was expressed. What you'll find is actually the opposite: "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" and "respect those in power over you, because God has ordained them" and "pray for those in authority". If I were looking for a belief system to take on the ruling class, I certainly wouldn't look to Christianity.

Exactly my point. Good Christians make good slaves. Accept injustice cheerfully. You'll have pie in the sky by and by when you die.

 

[Chesterton]

Yeah and William Wilberforce was, what, a Buddhist?

 

[Received]

Good Christians make good slaves. Accept injustice cheerfully. You'll have pie in the sky by and by when you die.

Reed mor Kierkegaard.