Nietzsche’s The Antichrist was not written to identify a villain in the conventional sense. It was an intervention aimed at disturbing complacency. His target was not a person, but a reversal: a situation in which values publicly affirmed as moral, spiritual, or redemptive had become detached from the practices and dispositions they purported to sanctify. […]
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