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Single Idea 2867
[filed under theme 29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity
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Full Idea
Christianity is Platonism for the people.
Gist of Idea
Christianity is Platonism for the people
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil [1886], Pref)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Beyond Good and Evil', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1973], p.14
The
36 ideas
with the same theme
[general ideas about the Christian religion]:
7351
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Jesus turned the ideas of Hillel into a theology reduced to its moral elements
[Jesus, by Johnson,P]
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1867
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Christians presented Jesus as a new kind of logos to oppose that of the philosophers
[Celsus]
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6818
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Allah cannot have begotten a son, as He is self-sufficient
[Mohammed]
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20211
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Life aims at the Beatific Vision - of perfect happiness, and revealed truth
[Aquinas, by Zagzebski]
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9115
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To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved
[William of Ockham]
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7252
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A tyrant exploits Christians because they don't value this life, and are made to be slaves
[Rousseau]
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8102
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We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love
[Joubert]
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21798
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To universalise 'give everything to the poor' leads to absurdity
[Hegel]
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6915
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Hegel made the last attempt to restore Christianity, which philosophy had destroyed
[Hegel, by Feuerbach]
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6686
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Hegel said he was offering an encyclopaedic rationalisation of Christianity
[Hegel, by Graham]
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4178
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Christianity is a pessimistic religion, in which the world is equated with evil
[Schopenhauer]
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6902
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Catholicism concerns God in himself, Protestantism what God is for man
[Feuerbach]
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7216
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The ethics of the Gospel has been supplemented by barbarous Old Testament values
[Mill]
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16008
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The best way to be a Christian is without 'Christianity'
[Kierkegaard]
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20735
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We need to see that Christianity cannot be understood
[Kierkegaard]
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2917
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Christianity is a revolt of things crawling on the ground against elevated things
[Nietzsche]
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2867
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Christianity is Platonism for the people
[Nietzsche]
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20245
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Christianity hoped for a short cut to perfection, that skipped the hard labour of morality
[Nietzsche]
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20247
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Christianity was successful because of its heathen rituals
[Nietzsche]
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14813
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Science rejecting the teaching of Christianity in favour of Epicurus shows the superiority of the latter
[Nietzsche]
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14832
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The Sermon on the Mount is vanity - praying to one part of oneself, and demonising the rest
[Nietzsche]
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14837
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Christ seems warm hearted, and suppressed intellect in favour of the intellectually weak
[Nietzsche]
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14850
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Christ was the noblest human being
[Nietzsche]
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7160
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Christian belief is kept alive because it is soothing - the proof based on pleasure
[Nietzsche]
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2901
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How could the Church intelligently fight against passion if it preferred poorness of spirit to intelligence?
[Nietzsche]
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18325
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Christians believe that only God can know what is good for man
[Nietzsche]
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4499
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Primitive Christianity is abolition of the state; it is opposed to defence, justice, patriotism and class
[Nietzsche]
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22653
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Early Christianity says God recognises the neglected weak and tender impulses
[James]
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20719
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Punish the heretic, but be indulgent to the sinner
[Weber]
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7606
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The idea that Jesus was God was only settled in the fourth century
[Armstrong,K]
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23055
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Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed
[Gray]
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9272
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Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning
[Gray]
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9279
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What was our original sin, and how could Christ's suffering redeem it?
[Gray]
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7483
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Paul's early writings mention few striking episodes from Jesus' life
[Watson]
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7484
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Jesus never intended to start a new religion
[Watson]
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20737
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Protestantism brought the modern emphasis on inner states of the soul
[Aho]
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