If Nietzsche's design in this picture was to strike at historical Christianity, he has given us--as any one may see--a caricature in the spirit and style of the eighteenth century. But that his description hits off a certain type of the apostles of spite-morality cannot be denied, and rarely has all the self-deception that may lurk beneath moral preaching been more vigorously unmasked. (Compare Beyond Good and Evil and The Genealogy of Morals.)[6]
criticism · An Essay on Aristocratic Radicalism
A caricature that still unmasks
Brandes judges that as a picture of historical Christianity Nietzsche's account is an eighteenth-century-style caricature, but that it does hit a type of apostle of spite-morality and vigorously unmasks the self-deception beneath moral preaching.
- Christianity, priests and the need to worshipBrandes weighs the account as unfair to Christianity historically yet psychologically telling.
- Revenge and ressentimentGrants that spite-morality is a real type.