Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 14
14 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction does not think highly enough of love itself. Did this God not also want to be judged? But the lover loves beyond reward and punishment. When he was young, this god from the orient, he was hard and revengeful and built himself a Hell for the delight of his favourites. But at length he grew old and soft and mellow and compassionate more like a grandfather than a father, most like a tottery old grandmother. Then he sat, shrivelled, in his chimney comer, fretting over his weak legs, world-weary, weary willing, and one day suffocated through his excessive pity. ’* ________________________________________ * Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche, p: 271–273 Translation published by Penguin Books 1969