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The Conditions for God.—"God himself cannot subsist without wise men," said Luther, and with good reason; but "God can still less subsist without unwise men,"—good Luther did not say that!
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A Dangerous Resolution.—The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad, has made the world ugly and bad.
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Christianity and Suicide.—Christianity made use of the excessive longing for suicide at the time of its origin as a lever for its power: it left only two forms of suicide, invested them with the highest dignity and the highest hopes, and forbade all others with dreadful threatenings. But martyrdom and the slow self-annihilation of the ascetic were permitted.
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Against Christianity.—It is now no longer our reason, but our taste that decides against Christianity.
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