Saturday Quote: Friedrich Nietzsche on Morality

“When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality… Christianity is a system, a consistently thought out and complete view of things. If one breaks out of it a fundamental idea, the belief in God, one thereby breaks the whole thing to pieces: one has nothing of any consequence left in one’s hand… Christian morality is a command: its origin is transcendental… it possesses truth only if God is truth – it stands or falls with the belief in God.”

Reference:

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, Expeditions of an Untimely Man, Section 5.

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