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

merely an object of aspiration: perfection is actually normal.--Under
Christianity the instincts of the subjugated and the oppressed come to
the fore: it is only those who are at the bottom who seek their
salvation in it. Here the prevailing pastime, the favourite remedy for
boredom is the discussion of sin, self-criticism, the inquisition of
conscience; here the emotion produced by power (called "God") is pumped
up (by prayer); here the highest good is regarded as unattainable, as a
gift, as "grace." Here, too, open dealing is lacking; concealment and
the darkened room are Christian. Here body is despised and hygiene is
denounced as sensual; the church even ranges itself against cleanliness
(--the first Christian order after the banishment of the Moors closed
the public baths, of which there were 270 in Cordova alone) . Christian,
too; is a certain cruelty toward one's self and toward others; hatred of
unbelievers; the will to persecute. Sombre and disquieting ideas are in
the foreground; the most esteemed states of mind, bearing the most
respectable names are epileptoid; the diet is so regulated as to
engender morbid symptoms and over-stimulate the nerves. Christian,
again, is all deadly enmity to the rulers of the earth, to the
"aristocratic"--along with a sort of secret rivalry with them (--one
resigns one's "body" to them--one wantsonly one's "soul" . . . ). And
Christian is all hatred of the intellect, of pride, of courage of
freedom, of intellectual libertinage; Christian is all hatred of the
senses, of joy in the senses, of joy in general . . .
22.
When Christianity departed from its native soil, that of the lowest
orders, the underworld of the ancient world, and began seeking power
among barbarian peoples, it no longer had to deal with exhausted men,
but with men still inwardly savage and capable of self torture--in
brief, strong men, but bungled men. Here, unlike in the case of the
Buddhists, the cause of discontent with self, suffering through self, is
not merely a general sensitiveness and susceptibility to pain, but, on
the contrary, an inordinate thirst for inflicting pain on others, a
tendency to obtain subjective satisfaction in hostile deeds and ideas.
Christianity had to embrace barbaric concepts and valuations in order to
obtain mastery over barbarians: of such sort, for example, are the
sacrifices of the first-born, the drinking of blood as a sacrament, the
disdain of the intellect and of culture; torture in all its forms,
whether bodily or not; the whole pomp of the cult. Buddhism is a
religion for peoples in a further state of development, for races that
have become kind, gentle and over-spiritualized (--Europe is not yet
ripe for it--): it is a summons 'that takes them back to peace and
cheerfulness, to a careful rationing of the spirit, to a certain
hardening of the body. Christianity aims at mastering beasts of prey;
its modus operandi is to make them ill--to make feeble is the Christian
recipe for taming, for "civilizing." Buddhism is a religion for the
closing, over-wearied stages of civilization. Christianity appears
before civilization has so much as begun--under certain circumstances it
lays the very foundations thereof.
23.
Buddhism, I repeat, is a hundred times more austere, more honest, more