Christianity is, essentially and fundamentally, the
embodiment of disgust and antipathy for life, merely disguised, concealed, got
up as the belief in an 'other' life, or a 'better' life. Hatred of the world,
the condemnation of the emotions, the fear of beauty and sensuality, a
transcendental world invented the better to slander this one, basically a
yearning for non-existence, for repose until the 'sabbath of sabbaths' - all of
this, along with Christianity's unconditional resolve to acknowledge only moral
values, struck me as the most dangerous and sinister of all possible
manifestations of a 'will to decline', at the very least, a sign of the most
profound affliction, fatigue, sullenness, exhaustion, impoverishment of life.
Frederic Nietzsche
