That task of revaluation is ours. It is the work of this century. It is life and death work.

Short Form Content at Blogger: I believe that if Nietzsche had been able to complete his life work he would have agreed.

In his introduction to The Antichrist, H. L. Mencken (the translator) quotes Nietzsche:

"In me the Christianity of my forbears reaches its logical conclusion. In me the stern intellectual conscience that Christianity fosters and makes paramount turns _against_ Christianity. In me Christianity ... devours itself."

Ultimately Nietzsche liberates Christianity from creed and establishes it as a way of life which he claims had only one follower, Jesus.

What Nietzsche does not do is articulate the values of this way. Nietzsche skewers the existing values of Christianity (which he relates to resentment, weakness and a sheeplike mentality). But Nietzsche does not wrestle  what values Jesus would put in their place.  That task is ours. It is the work of this century. It is community work. It is a matter of life and death for the world.

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