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>That sounds too complex an analysis for Christianity, at least its ancient roots - in the modern era, yeah, then I guess you can analyze as much as you'd like.
The early Christians were, literally, slaves, martyrs, and pariahs. Christianity was born on spite and slave morality. It is its primary attraction: from the time of the Ichtus, when slaves and martyrs rose against the Roman empire. Powerlessness was greatness in the eye of Jesus ; dispossession was a virtue, compassion for your tormentor was the proof that you were greater than him, accepting death or torture was your key to Heaven. The spite of the slave and the dispossessed, made morality. Weaknesses and torments as divine.

Your interpretation is a later one, when the religion became dominant, and many teachings were reworked again. It is common sense morality, one that allows for disapproval, fights, and a modicum of decency. But it isn't the most natural interpretation of Christianity, far from it, and not the one that is seeped in the root of the religion.

Jesus died for your sins. Jesus died to repay for your Debt in the service of God, and Jesus is God: God repaid the Debt you have for him, increasing it twofold. The pure genius of it.

>Of course, I have nothing to say about everything else, but as an ethical humanist that's the part of the Bible I'm most interested in and thus what I have the most to talk about, and, certainly, I'd say that people who are focused on their well-being as opposed to the well-beings of their neighbors are interesting to debate against, if only because their values are exactly opposite to mine. It doesn't come from a malicious place, so I don't hate it.
One can have a master morality and still think about others, and tries his best to make others happy. (Pure) Buddhism is one of the (only) religion with a master morality: in its teachings, you're trying to be moral because ultimately it is good for you, but it is understood that being moral don't make you inherently better than others. If only because the very concept of being better than other is deeply flawed, and empty of meaning. You made a choice of helping others because you liked it, and because there is much suffering in the world, but there is no reward for your choice and you aren't expected to make it. There is no inherent meaning in helping others, but you can still become a Bodhisattva of you wish, if you want to.

That's the strict opposite of slave morality. Nietzsche himself, toward the end of his life, had nothing but praise for Buddhism. Though his early works are plagued by misconception about it.