Friedrich Nietzsche knew this. He cast off the Christian faith of his Lutheran ancestors, but he recognized that a new perspective on the world and a new kind of religious personality were born in the traditions and Scriptures of the Jewish people and came to fruition in the teachings of Jesus and the way in which his followers perceived his death. Nietzsche would have none of it. He maintained a certain admiration for Jesus as a molder of human minds and hearts, but he detested the Jewish-Christian "slave morality," the ethics of affirming the worth and dignity of every person, no matter how
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