Nietzsche

You can say what you like: Christianity wanted to liberate humanity from the burden of the demands of morality

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality (1881).

Arising from Christianity is the audible sound of a great popular protest against philosophy

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality (1881).

What I fear is not the awful shape behind my chair, but its voice. And not so much the words, but rather the dreadful, inarticulate, and inhuman tone of that shape. If only it would speak as people speak!

- Nietzsche, in one of his student notebooks, at 24

Herein lies the psychological difficulty that has hampered the understanding of Christianity: the drive that created it forces one to fight against it. Only as a peace and innocence party has this insurrectionary movement any possibility of success: it must conquer through extreme mildness, sweetness, softness […] Masterstroke: to deny and condemn the drive whose expression one is, continually to display, by word and deed, the antithesis of this drive.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power.

‘One must understand that an action is never caused by a purpose.’

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The WIll to Power.

‘An action void of purpose […] can spring only from obedience to God.’

- Karl Barth, Epistle to the Romans.