[1032W-{6-8/80}Religion and Art: PW Vol. VI, p. 233-234]
[P. 233] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “For us it is sufficient to derive the ruin of theChristian religion from is drawing upon Judaism for the elaboration of its dogmas. As we before have suggested, however, it is precisely hence that the Church obtained her source of might and mastery; for wherever Christian hosts fared forth to robbery and bloodshed, even beneath the banner of the Cross it was not the All-Sufferer whose name was invoked, but Moses, Joshua, Gideon, and all the other captains of Jehova who fought for the people of Israel, were the names in request to fire the heart of slaughter … . Without this intrusion of the ancient Jewish spirit, and its raising to an equal rank with the purely Christian evangel, how were it possible for the Church till this day to claim for her own a ‘civilised world’ whose peoples all stand armed to the teeth for mutual extermination at the first summons of the Lord of War to squander every fruit of peace in methodically falling on each other’s throats? Manifestly it is not Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, whose [P. 234] pattern our army-chaplains commend to their battalions ere going into action; though they call on him, they can but mean Jehova, Jahve, or one of the Elohim, who hated all other gods beside himself, and wished them subjugated to his faithful people.” [1032W-{6-8/80}Religion and Art: PW Vol. VI, p. 233-234]
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[P. 236] {anti-FEUER/NIET} “The ruin which a Latin renaissance of Grecian artonce wrought on all sound evolution of a Christian culture for the people, is aggravated year by year by a lumbering Philology, which fawns upon the guardians of the ancient law of the Right of the Stronger.” [1033W-{6-8/80}Religion and Art: PW Vol. VI, p. 236]
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[P. 244] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “Whoever rightly weighs these aptitudes of the humanrace, -- so astounding to us in our present decline, --- must come to the conclusion that the giant force which shaped the world by testing every means of self-appeasement, from destruction to re-fashioning, had reached its goal in bringing forth this Man; for in him it became conscious of itself as Will, and, with that knowledge, could henceforth rule its destiny. To feel that horror at himself so needful for his last redemption, this Man was qualified by just that knowledge, to wit the recognition of himself in every manifestment of the one great Will; and the guide to evolution of this faculty was given him by Suffering, since he alone can feel it in the requisite degree. If we involuntarily conceive of the Divine as a sphere where Suffering is impossible, that conception ever rests on the desire of something for which we can find no positive, but merely a negative expression.” [1034W-{6-8/80}Religion and Art: PW Vol. VI, p. 244]
