The Antichrist

"Antichrist" (Der Antichrist) is a book considered the first part of the work "The Heart of All Values" by Friedrich Nietzsche. In this book, Nietzsche considers that the crucified is not Jesus of Nazareth, but the Christ who is the product of Paul "and the early Christians, then the church afterward." "Since 1883 precisely, Nietzsche has made a strict distinction between the historical figure of Jesus and the mythical figure of Christ." In this work, Nietzsche addresses Christianity and its main founder Paul more than he criticizes Jesus of Nazareth, whom he regarded as a pure, inward, spiritual youth, with no relation to what surrounds him except for his aversion to that environment, his lifestyle, thinking, and beliefs. He did not call for establishing a church, and his entire life was a collection of spiritual sermons. He is not a believer for others, nor a savior for others — according to the book — nor does he promise the kingdom of God, as Nietzsche emphasizes in paragraph (32) of this book when he says: "Rather, he is the belief; his own belief, and he himself is salvation — his own salvation, and his own kingdom of God." What our philosopher Nietzsche wants to say, plainly (..., is that Paul is the opposite of the Gospel, and the opposite of "the message of humanity" that Jesus of Nazareth preached — "I am" — "the Antichrist," Nietzsche declares. Dionysus, Zoroaster, Nietzsche: three names for one entity, which is "the opposite" and the counter and the alternative philosophical project to Christianity." An important book, based on opposition and the reversal of all values, for Nietzsche, as he denounces Christianity and contradicts Christ, presenting himself as an opposite and a contradiction, deriving from that the legitimacy to seize the right that was monopolized by Christianity and the church, which is the right to curse...