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>>19078121
>heh...whats that about science and logic? nah screw that, believing in jewish sky daddy fairy tales is real progress, now lets go oppress women and LGBTQ2S+ people, repress sexuality and generally set back human progress by thousands of years

In Christianity neither morality nor religion makes contact with
reality at any point. Nothing but imaginary causes (“God,” “soul,” “I,”
“spirit,” “free will” — or else “unfree will”; nothing but imaginary
effects (“sin,” “redemption,” “grace,” “punishment,” “forgiveness of
sins”). An intercourse between imaginary beings (“God,” “spirits,”
“souls”); an imaginary natural science (anthropocentric; complete lack
of the concept of natural causes); an imaginary psychology (nothing but
self-misunderstanding, interpretations of pleasant or unpleasant
general feelings, for example the condition of the nervus sympathicus,
with the aid of the sign language of the religio-moral idiosyncrasy —
“repentance,” “pangs of conscience,” “temptation by the devil,” “the
closeness of God”; an imaginary teleology (“the Kingdom of God,” “the
Last Judgment,” “eternal life”).

Has anyone actually understood the famous story that stands
at the beginning of the Bible — of God’s hellish terror in the presence
of science?... No one has understood it. This priestly book par excellence
begins, as expected, with the great inner difficulty of the priest: he has
only one great danger, consequently “God” has only one great danger.

The old God was seized with hellish terror. Man himself had become
His greatest mistake, God had created for himself a rival; science makes
one like God, — it is all over with priests and gods once man becomes
scientific! — Moral: science is the forbidden-in-itself — it alone is for-
bidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sins, the original sin. This
alone is morality — “Thou shalt not know.” — the rest follows from this.

The beginning of the Bible contains
the entire psychology of the priest. — The priest knows only one great
danger: that is science — the healthy concept of cause and effect. But
upon the whole science flourishes only under happy circumstances —
one must have time, one must have spirit to spare, in order to “know”...
“Consequently we must make man unhappy” — this was at all times the
logic of the priest. — One can already guess what first came into the
world thereby in accordance with this logic — “sin” ... The concept of
guilt and punishment, the entire “moral-world-order” was invented
contrary to science — contrary to man’s emancipation from the priest ...

When the natural
results of a deed are no longer “natural,” but thought to be caused by
the concept-ghosts of superstition, by “God,” by “spirits,” by “souls” as
merely “moral” consequences, as reward, penalty, a sign of affirmation,
an aid to education, then the precondition for knowledge is destroyed
— then the greatest crime against humanity has been committed. — Sin, to say
it once more, this form of human self-desecration par excellence, was
invented in order to make science, culture, every elevation and dis-
tinction of mankind impossible; the priest rules through the invention
of sin.