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When self-proclaimed MAGA "christians" become more widely recognized for their defense of a convicted felon, rapist and child abuser than for their compassion toward the poor,
the immigrants, the marginalized, and the oppressed, it becomes clear they are following someone other than Jesus and that they have much repentance to consider.
Maybe they are reinventing Christianity in something more Nietzsche-like:
The idea that Christianity is a "slave religion" originates primarily with the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who, in works like On the Genealogy of Morality, described Christianity as embodying "slave morality"—a system where the weak, out of resentment, invert the values of the powerful (master morality) by labeling strength as evil and meekness/suffering as good, thus creating a religion of the oppressed that denies life for an afterlife.
Key Aspects of Nietzsche's View:
Master vs. Slave Morality: Nietzsche argued that master morality (aristocratic, life-affirming) valued strength and nobility, while slave morality (the "herd") created "good" as the opposite of the masters' "good" (which they called "evil").
Ressentiment: This inversion of values stems from ressentiment (resentment) of the weak towards the powerful, making Christianity a religion of the downtrodden, not the strong.
Denial of Life: He saw Christianity as a joyless faith that denigrated the body, instincts, and earthly life in favor of an imagined afterlife, which he viewed as life-denying.
While Nietzsche coined this concept, similar critiques of Christianity's role in encouraging submission and its perceived otherworldly focus have come from other thinkers and movements, including some secular critics and liberation theologians who later reinterpreted or challenged these dynamics.
Charlie Kirk's version? But then, they really aren't Christians are they?
