Does he not have anything more comforting and constructive to say to “the poor” than to insult them by calling them sinners? How different is he from the “ascetic priest” of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, who makes himself into a healer “of the sick flock” by poisoning their minds with the belief that they are to blame for their woes? (Nietzsche 1956, 262ff.) Would not the proper first step in healing this flock have been a resounding message that the flock has been made sick?
