What Role Does Religion Play In The Antichrist

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Religion in existentialism took up a massive role, the exploration of individual existence began to make people doubt the existence of spiritual figures, for a famous example, God; although not all existentialists are anti-god, but in The Antichrist, a philosophical criticism of Christianity written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche criticized the foolishness of Christians believing in something that doesn’t exist in his own view.
The frustration of this urge, Nietzsche saw, is responsible for the existence of various moral systems and religious institutions. Nietzsche was particularly hostile to Christianity, which he famously calls a “slave morality”. In it he saw the resentment of the weak towards the strong.

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