"Everything that has hitherto been called 'truth' has been recognized as the most harmful, insidious, and subterranean form of lie; the holy pretest of 'improving' mankind, as the ruse for sucking the blood of life itself. Morality as a kind of vampirism.
Whoever uncovers morality also uncovers the disvalue of all values that are and have been believed; he no longer sees anything venerable in the most venerated types of man, even in those pronounced holy; he considers them the most calamitous type of abortion -- calamitous because they exerted such fascination.
The concept of 'God' invented as a counter concept of life-- everything harmful, poisonous, slanderous, the whole hostility unto death against life synthesized in this concept in a gruesome unity! The concept of the 'beyond,' the 'true world' invented in order to devalue the only world there is -- in order to retain no goal, no reason, no task for our earthly reality! The concept of the 'soul,' the 'spirit,' finally 'immortal soul,' invented in order to despise the body, to make it sick, 'holy;' to oppose with a ghastly levity everything that deserves to be taken seriously in life, the questions of nourishment, abode, spiritual diet, treatment of the sick, cleanliness, and weather.
In place of health, the 'salvation of the soul' -- that is, a folie circulaire between penitential convulsions and hysteria about redemption. The concept of 'sin' invented along with the torture instrument that belongs with it, the concept of 'free will,' in order to confuse the instincts, to make mistrust of the instincts second nature. In the concept of the 'selfless,' the 'self-denier,' the distinctive sign of decadence, feeling attracted by what is harmful, being unable to find any longer what profits one, self-destruction is turned into the sign of value itself, into 'duty,' into 'holiness,' into what is 'divine' in man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche in Ecce Homo
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William Schaeffer
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