Friedrich Nietzsche on Critiques

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Christian conception of God⁠—God as god of the sick, God as a spider, God as spirit⁠—is one of the most corrupt conceptions of the divine ever attained on earth. It may even represent the low-water mark in the descending development of divine types. God degenerated into a contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes! God as the declaration of war against life, against nature, against the will to live! God⁠—the formula for every slander against ‘this world’, for every lie about the ‘beyond’! God the deification of nothingness, the will to nothingness pronounced holy!

The Portable Nietzsche, pages 585-586, Walter Kaufmann (editor/translator), New York: Viking Press, 1954

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