I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty-I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
(Addressing anti-semitic Christians) You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?
One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all price, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation...
War to the death against depravity-depravity is Christianity.
... an absurd problem came to the surface: How COULD God permit that [crucifixion of Jesus Christ]!...the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE...The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form-the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
One should not go into church if one wants to breathe pure air.
The last Christian died on the cross.
Christianity makes suffering contagious.
A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the noble, that is also Christian. Hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the sense, of the joy of the senses, of joy in general is Christian.
