Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
by Robin A. Brace
2006.

Friedrich Nietzsche challenged the foundations of traditional morality and of Christianity. He believed in the creativity and realities of the world in which we live, rather than any contemplation of a world beyond. In The Twilight of the Gods (Götzen-Dämmerung, 1888) he wrote,'I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty — I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind. ... The only excuse for God is that he doesn't exist.'