However, to understand Nietzsche, it is important to realize that his view of Christian morality is that it is a tool – a club swung by the weak to subjugate the strong. The truth value is irrelevant. The weak people did not reverse morality because they thought it was true – they did it because it served them. It empowered them to gain the upper hand over those who were physically or financially more powerful than they were. When the weak lacked land, horses, swords, armies, or money, they restrained the strong with threats of eternal damnation, or by painting the strong as someone who is diseased with sin – someone who lacked the virtues of gentleness, obedience, or meekness. I think Nietzsche wanted to liberate Europe from the chains of Christian morality so that it could escape its problems and once again enter into the real morality – the morality of
However, to understand Nietzsche, it is important to realize that his view of Christian morality is that it is a tool – a club swung by the weak to subjugate the strong. The truth value is irrelevant. The weak people did not reverse morality because they thought it was true – they did it because it served them. It empowered them to gain the upper hand over those who were physically or financially more powerful than they were. When the weak lacked land, horses, swords, armies, or money, they restrained the strong with threats of eternal damnation, or by painting the strong as someone who is diseased with sin – someone who lacked the virtues of gentleness, obedience, or meekness. I think Nietzsche wanted to liberate Europe from the chains of Christian morality so that it could escape its problems and once again enter into the real morality – the morality of