All FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Quotes about “Christianity”

“The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation.”
“It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.”
“In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”
“Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity.”
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
“I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and 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 on the human race.”
“Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.”
“I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all 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 worse 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.”
“If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.”
“However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.”
“What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.”
“Christianity is religion for the executioner.”
“Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.”
“Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.”
“Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters.”
“One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."”
“Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.”

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