I'M pleased to discover Nietzsche wrote a book on Christianity--Dawn of Day. I thought he criticised it only in bursts.
He writes that the French have been the most Christian people on earth. '...not,' he writes, 'in that the faith of the masses has been greater there than elsewhere, but because the most difficult Christian ideals have there turned into men, and have not remained mere images, attempts, half-creations.' As examples, he includes Pascal, the Huguenots, the Trappists.
Nietzsche, to me so far, sounds impressive, if you consider him in his period of history, and his audience being impressed by his often abstract ideas to be taken how you like..
He's most versatile in his meanings, and I would say more a prophet than a philosopher.
No wonder the Nazis were able to twist his values to their advantage: with the help of his sister, of course.
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