Full Idea
Christ, whom we like to imagine as having the warmest of hearts, furthered men's stupidity, took the side of the intellectually weak, and kept the greatest intellect from being produced: and this was consistent.
Gist of Idea
Christ seems warm hearted, and suppressed intellect in favour of the intellectually weak
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 235)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.145
A Reaction
Thomas Aquinas was a stupendous intellect. The surest way to be swept forward on a wave of popularity is to find some reason why the uneducated are superior to the educated.