him. "The sad truth is that we remain necessarily strangers to ourselves, we don't understand our substance . . . Of ourselves we are not 'knowers'" (Genealogy of Morals 149). The source of this fact is the cultural, political, and social domination of religiously sanctioned--and perverse--moral codes, which must be radically rethought if human experience is to be salvaged. As he says in Ecce Homo, citing Genealogy of Morals, Christianity grew "out of the spirit of ressentiment [deep-seated resentment], not, as people may believe, out of the 'spirit'--a countermovement by its very nature, the great rebellion against the domination of noble values" (Ecce 312).
Christianity is the source of fundamental--and fundamentally skewed and insupportable--condition of modern human society. In conjunction with bourgeois values and the Enlightenment philosophical tradition, Christianity is "the provenance of our moral prejudices" (Genealogy of Morals 150), pathological, inappropriately judgmental, tyrannical, dangerously destructive.
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