Nietzsche objected to 'Christian' morality/ethics: When one goes to confessional, one never boasts about how great one has been. One relates instead how bad they have been, or what they have done wrong.

This is the problem: 'Christianity' doesn't demand greatness or exellence from anyone; instead, mostly it demands NOT doing things, being 'good' in a circumscribed way, which leads to a devitalized life.

Nietzsche instead offers a revival of the pagan Hellenic concept of virtue, 'Arete,' meaning exellence. The creation of the great-souled man, one who is stern with themself while attempting to impose their will upon the external world, aiming toward the unreachable heights... this ought to be the new ideal.


Nietzsche did not object to Jesus too much- but condemned St. Paul, for distorting the original message.