I find it telling that Nietzsche, despite writing a book called "the Antichrist", always took Plato and is Christian manifestation as his true enemies. But never Christ. Nietzsche never attacks Christ directly. He invariably praises him.
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Nietzsche does once call Christ an “idiot,” but he VERY clearly means it in the Dostoyevskian sense of “idiot,” and not the Greek or modern.
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In Dostoyevski’s sense an “idiot” is someone almost “too good for this world,” who sees only the good in people or the best in them, and so gets taken advantage of, but is not exactly a bad person … somehow not bad enough.
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Zarathustra also speaks highly of Christ in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
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Nietzsche regards Christianity as a toxic fusion of Platonism and Jewish ressentiment via St. Paul, but NOT Christ. Hence Nietzsche’s famous “There was only one Christian, and He died on the cross.”
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Nietzsche is always careful when the attacks Christianity NOT to attack Christ. I again find this interesting. It is UNLIKE Nietzsche not to attack.
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Nietzsche doesn’t mess around. He goes STRAIGHT FOR the biggest enemy he can find, much like Achilles. Who does he go for? PLATO. But why not CHRIST?
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You need to read René Girard and his analysis of Nietzsche and Christianity. I think he would slightly disagree with you on this as he would feel that Christ vs Dionysus is the central conflict in Nietzsches mind (and the world).
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