58. Chapter

original: "jene Tschandala-Religionen..." those Chandala lowest social caste in Indian tradition, used here to denote a base or degraded religious type religions fascinated, with ruthless violence against the truth, placed into the mouth of the "Savior" of his own invention, and not merely into his mouth—that he made something out of him that even a Mithraic priest could understand... This was his moment of Damascus: he grasped that he needed the belief in immortality to devalue "the world," that the concept of "Hell" still conquers over Rome, that one kills life with the "beyond"... Nihilist and Christian: that rhymes, and it does not merely rhyme...

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