How Christianity Cheated Us?كيف غشتنا النصرانية ؟
Christianity has cheated us out of the
harvest of ancient
culture; later it cheated
us again, out of the harvest of the culture
of Islam. The wonderful world of the Moorish culture of
Spain,
really more closely
related to us, more congenial to our senses and
tastes than Rome or
Greece, was trampled down (I do not say by what
kind of feet). Why?
Because it owed its origin to noble, to male
instincts, because it
said Yes to life even with the rare and refined
luxuries of Moorish life.
Later the crusaders fought something
before which they might
more properly have
prostrated themselves in the dust -- a culture
compared to which even
our nineteenth century might well feel very
poor, very
"late." To be sure, they
wanted loot; the Orient was
rich. One should not be
so prejudiced. Crusades -- high piracy,
nothing else! The German nobility, Viking nobility at
bottom, was in
its proper element here:
the church knew only too well what it takes
to get the German
nobility. The German nobility, always
the "Swiss
Guards" of the
church, always in the service of all the bad instincts
of the church -- but well
paid. That the church should have used
German swords, German
blood and courage, to wage its war unto death
against everything noble
on earth! There are many painful
questions
at this point. The German nobility is almost missing in the
history
of higher culture: one
guesses the reason -- Christianity, alcohol,
the two great means of
corruption.
Really there should not be any choice
between Islam and
Christianity, any more
than between an Arab and a Jew. The
decision
is given; nobody is free
to make any further choice. Either one
is a
chandala, or one is
not. "War to the knife against
Rome! Peace and
friendship with
Islam" -- thus felt, thus acted, that great free
spirit, the genius among
German emperors, Frederick II. How? Must a
German first be a genius,
a free spirit, to have decent feelings?
I
do not understand how a
German could ever have Christian feelings.
(translation by W. Kaufmann,
transcribed by T. Rourke. File archived
at Lord Etrigan's
Nietzsche site...
http://members.aol.com/lrdetrigan/index4.html
Accept no imitations!)
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