"Nietzsche, Friedrich - The Antichrist" - читать интересную книгу автора (Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm)

up settling down quietly anywhere; finally he has come to feel at home
everywhere, and is the great cosmopolitan--until now he has the "great
majority" on his side, and half the earth. But this god of the "great
majority," this democrat among gods, has not become a proud heathen god:
on the contrary, he remains a Jew, he remains a god in a corner, a god
of all the dark nooks and crevices, of all the noisesome quarters of the
world! . . His earthly kingdom, now as always, is a kingdom of the
underworld, a souterrain kingdom, a ghetto kingdom. . . And he himself
is so pale, so weak, so decadent . . . Even the palest of the pale are
able to master him--messieurs the metaphysicians, those albinos of the
intellect. They spun their webs around him for so long that finally he
was hypnotized, and began to spin himself, and became another
metaphysician. Thereafter he resumed once more his old business of
spinning the world out of his inmost being sub specie Spinozae;
thereafter he be came ever thinner and paler--became the "ideal," became
"pure spirit," became "the absolute," became "the thing-in-itself." . .
. The collapse of a god: he became a "thing-in-itself."
18.
The Christian concept of a god--the god as the patron of the sick, the
god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit--is one of the most
corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world: it probably
touches low-water mark in the ebbing evolution of the god-type. God
degenerated into the contradiction of life. Instead of being its
transfiguration and eternal Yea! In him war is declared on life, on
nature, on the will to live! God becomes the formula for every slander
upon the "here and now," and for every lie about the "beyond"! In him
nothingness is deified, and the will to nothingness is made holy! . . .
19.
The fact that the strong races of northern Europe did not repudiate this
Christian god does little credit to their gift for religion--and not
much more to their taste. They ought to have been able to make an end of
such a moribund and worn-out product of the decadence. A curse lies upon
them because they were not equal to it; they made illness, decrepitude
and contradiction a part of their instincts--and since then they have
not managed to create any more gods. Two thousand years have come and
gone--and not a single new god! Instead, there still exists, and as if
by some intrinsic right,--as if he were the ultimatum and maximum of the
power to create gods, of the creator spiritus in mankind--this pitiful
god of Christian monotono-theism! This hybrid image of decay, conjured
up out of emptiness, contradiction and vain imagining, in which all the
instincts of decadence, all the cowardices and wearinesses of the soul
find their sanction!--
20.
In my condemnation of Christianity I surely hope I do no injustice to a
related religion with an even larger number of believers: I allude to
Buddhism. Both are to be reckoned among the nihilistic religions--they
are both decadence religions--but they are separated from each other in
a very remarkable way. For the fact that he is able to compare them at
all the critic of Christianity is indebted to the scholars of
India.--Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity--it is