THE ANTICHRIST
By
Friedrich Nietzsche
Translation: H.L. Mencken
19.
The fact that the strong races of northern
Europe did not repudiate this
Christian God does little credit to their gift for
religion--and not much more to their taste. They ought to have been able to make an end of such a moribund and worn-out product of the
decadence. A curse lies upon them because they were not equal to it; they made illness, decrepitude and contradiction a part of their instincts--and since then they have not managed to create any more
Gods. Two thousand years have come and gone--and not a single new
God! Instead, there still exists, and as if by some intrinsic right,--as if he were the ultimatum and maximum of the power to create
Gods, of the creator
spiritus in
mankind--this pitiful
God of
Christian monotono-theism! This hybrid image of decay, conjured up out of emptiness, contradiction and vain imagining, in which all the instincts of
decadence, all the cowardices and wearinesses of the
soul find their sanction!--