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“Historically, then, Christianity in its original form was transformed into liberal Christianity, and finally into godless utilitarianliberalism. In this transformation, all the original asceticism, the absolute demands, the passionate desire to suffer with and for Christ, the difficult virtues, the awe before the divine, the self-abnegation, and the saintly heroic struggle were degraded through liberal Christianity and then through godless utilitarian liberalism into a kind of charity of softness that demanded nothing while it provided for every earthly comfort. This destruction of Christianity therefore brought about the utilitarian “green-pasture happiness of the herd, with security, lack of danger, comfort, and an easier life for everyone” [...] In this sense, Nietzsche the adamant atheist and self-proclaimed “AntiChrist” could lament the death of God: it has led to the ultimate “animalization of man into the dwarf animal of equal rights and claims.”
― Benjamin Walker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help