Citat #14

“- At this point I shall not suppress a sigh. There are days when I am haunted by a feeling blacker than the blackest melancholy – contempt of man. And so as to leave no doubt as to what I despise, whom I despise: it is the contemporary. The man of today, the man with whom I am fatefully contemporary. The man of today – I suffocate at his impure breath… With regard to the past I am, like all men of knowledge, of a large tolerance, that is to say a magnanimous self-control: I traverse the madhouse-world of entire millennia, be it called ‘Christianity’, ‘Christian faith’, ‘Christian Church’, with a gloomy circumspection – I take care not to make mankind responsible for its insanities. But my feelings suddenly alter, burst forth, immediately I enter the modern age, our age. Our age knows… What was formerly merely morbid has today become indecent – it is indecent to be a Christian today. And here is where my disgust commences. – I look around me: there is no longer a word left of what was formerly called ‘truth’,  we no longer endure it when a priest so much as utters the word ‘truth’. Even with the modest claim to integrity one must know today that a theologian, a priest, a pope does not merely err in every sentence he speaks, he lies – that he is no longer free to lie ‘innocently’, out of ‘ignorance’. The priest knows as well as anyone that there is no longer any ‘God’, any ’sinner’, any ‘redeemer’ -that ‘free will’, ‘moral world-order’ are lies – intellectual seriousness, the profound selv-overcoming of the intellect, no longer permits anyone not to know of these things….”

- Nietzsche: Antikrist