How did the German spirit transform Christianity!-And to stick to
Protestantism: how much beer there is in Protestant Christianity! Can one
even imagine a spiritually staler, lazier, more comfortably relaxed form of
the Christian faith than that of the average Protestant in Germany?
That's what I call a modest version of Christianity! A homoeopathy of
Christianity is what I call it.
One reminds me that today we also encounter an immodest
Protestantism-that of the court chaplains and anti-Semitic speculators: but
nobody has claimed yet that any "spirit" whatever
"moved" on the faces of these waters.-That is merely a more
indecent form of Christianity, by no means more sensible.
132 (1885)
Good Europeans that we are-what distinguishes us above the men of
fatherlands?-First, we are atheists and immoralists, but for the present we
support the religions and moralities of the herd instinct: for these prepare
a type of man that must one day fall into our hands, that must desire our
hands.
Beyond good and evil-but we demand that herd morality should be held
sacred unconditionally.
We hold in reserve many types of philosophy which need to be taught:
possibly, the pessimistic type, as a hammer; a European Buddhism might
perhaps be indispensable.
