“Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman…”

— Friedrich Nietzsche , book Twilight of the Idols

Das Christenthum ist eine Metaphysik des Henkers...
The Four Great Errors, Section 7
Twilight of the Idols (1888)

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Twilight of the Idols (1888)

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