So powerful is such a unitive state that Jesus did not even resist his own gory state crucifixion. He went to the electric chair of the time forgiving those who inflicted it, living the very practice Nietzsche identified as “the evangelical practice.” Death simply did not matter. At that point, or soon after, what would become “Christianity” took over and turned this most radical of teachings into its very opposite: a set of beliefs in the head about Jesus dying for our sins, about sacrifice, death, gore, and the divinity of suffering—in short, the bizarre legal conceptions to which I alluded
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