Christian
For Nietzsche, the institution or eponym, Christian, was both ironic and hypocritical. However, it was not the Romans this time, it was the Christians who had killed him and his idea. "And time has been reckoned from that dies nefastus, the beginning day of this disaster, from Christianity's first day! Why not rather from its last day—from today?—Revaluation of all values!"
Read more about this topic: The Antichrist (book)
Famous quotes containing the word christian:
“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
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—David Hume (1711–1776)
“From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical
Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)