“With this I come to a conclusion and pronounce my judgment. I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian church the most terrible of all the accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worst possible corruption. The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul. Let any one dare to speak to me of its “humanitarian” blessings! Its deepest necessities range it against any effort to abolish distress; it lives by distress; it creates distress to make itself immortal. For example, the worm of sin: it was the church that first enriched mankind with this misery! – The “equality of souls before God” – this fraud, this pretext for the rancunes of all the base-minded – this explosive concept, ending in revolution, the modern idea, and the notion of overthrowing the whole social order – this is Christian dynamite. The “humanitarian” blessings of Christianity forsooth! To breed out of humanitas a self-contradiction, an art of self-pollution, a will to lie at any price, an aversion and contempt for all good and honest instincts! All this, to me, is the “humanitarianism” of Christianity! – Parasitism as the only practice of the church; with its anaemic and “holy” ideals, sucking all the blood, all the love, all the hope out of life; the beyond as the will to deny all reality; the cross as the distinguishing mark of the most subterranean conspiracy ever heard of, – against health, beauty, well-being, intellect, kindness of soul – against life itself.
This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found – I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough, – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race.
And mankind reckons time from the dies nefastus when this fatality befell – from the first day of Christianity! – Why not rather from its last? – From today? – The transvaluation of all values!

(THE ANTICHRIST by Friedrich Nietzsche)

Apes…

15/09/2007

“Therefore, let us not underestimate the Christians: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape – in its application to the Christians a well-known theory of descent becomes a mere piece of politeness.”

(The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche)

“Cultul arborilor este atestat la toate marile familii europene ale grupului arian… şi nu s-a stins nici astăzi la descendenţii lor. Cît de serios a fost odinioară acest cult se poate constata din pedepsele sălbatice pe care le statuau vechile legi germane împotriva celor care îndrăzneau să cojească un copac… Ombilicul vinovatului trebuia să fie tăiat şi ţintuit în cuie pe partea copacului pe care acesta o cojise; apoi, era gonit în jurul copacului pînă când intestinele sale erau complet înfăşurate pe trunchi… Intenţia pedepsei era de a pune în locul cojii moarte substanţă vie de la cel vinovat; era vorba de VIAŢĂ PENTRU VIAŢĂ, VIAŢA UNUI OM pentru VIAŢA UNUI ARBORE!”

(James George Frazer, Creanga de aur)

‘…Tree-worship is well attested for all the great European families of the Aryan stock… and tree-worship is hardly extinct amongst their descendants at the present day. How serious that worship was in former times may be gathered from the ferocious penalty appointed by the old German laws for such as dared to peel the bark of a standing tree. The culprit’s navel was to be cut out and nailed to the part of the tree which he had peeled, and he was to be driven round and round the tree till all his guts were wound about its trunk. The intention of the punishment clearly was to replace the dead bark by a living substitute taken from the culprit; it was A LIFE FOR A LIFE, THE LIFE OF A MAN for THE LIFE OF A TREE!’

(James George Frazer, The Golden Bough)
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