Is Christianity a Slave Morality?

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It was Friedrich Nietzsche who called Christianity a slave morality. How could a religion which is said to teach love of thy neighbor, promote world peace, and avoiding sin be accused of harboring the enslavement of character so feverishly explained by Nietzsche? Many would denounce Nietzsche as an evil crazy person, one whose ideals were in line with the ideals of Nazi Germany. One would be incorrect assuming this of Nietzsche as one would be incorrect to argue that Christianity is not a slave morality. For it is defined as to which constitutes a slave morality that to me in no doubt does it cast that Nietzsche was correct in more ways than one. By cause of withheld and deep resentment for the master, sparked the means of which constitutes Christianity being a utility in which the Master is not conquered but made equal.

In order to fully understand the depth in which Nietzsche was correct, one must think outside of pre conditioned assumptions so easily acquired from society. Nietzsche was an atheist. To further grasp the meaning of Nietzsche’s proposed “Slave Morality”, one only has to look through the eyes in which the idea was proposed.

It must first be understood that Nietzsche was not some radical denouncing the Christian faith and doing a whole bunch of evil things. He was not a Nazi and actually opposed the nationalist party. He was born in 1609, and died in august of the year 1900. During his lifetime, Roosevelt was elected the same year his father died, the civil war took place, Pope Pius IX issues syllabus errorum, Germany expels the Jesuits and before his death Pop Leo XIII declares Testem Benevolentiae in which condemns “Americanism”2. It was a much different time as compared to our present.

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...nfront the master morality class. Instead they hold a deep resentment, unlike the master morality in which anger is either acted on or quickly forgotten. In this sense Nietzsche labeled the slave morality a utility. Meaning instead of directly confronting or conquering and being above the master, by means of guilt and other means they assimilated the master making them an equal. This is evident in the fact that Jews were salves, Christianity built off of Judaism, romans prosecuted Christians, and then look at Rome now. Who’s in charge of the Vatican, the Catholic Church is. Time and time again the religion and its analogs were challenged with extreme adversity, but by the teachings of the religion the slave morality is able to endure.

Nietzsche endorsed a value system which moved beyond the limits of good and evil. In a

way a call to better mankind as a whole.

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