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The fact that the strong races of northern Europe did not repudiate
this Christian god does little credit to their gift for religion—and not
much more to their taste. They ought to have been able to make an end of
such a moribund and worn-out product of the décadence. A curse
lies upon them because they were not equal to it; they made illness,
decrepitude and contradiction a part of their instincts—and since then
they have not managed to create any more gods. Two thousand years
have come and gone—and not a single new god! Instead, there still exists,
and as if by some intrinsic right,—as if he were the ultimatum and
maximum of the power to create gods, of the creator spiritus
in mankind—this pitiful god of Christian monotono-theism! This hybrid
image of decay, conjured up out of emptiness, contradiction and vain
imagining, in which all the instincts of décadence, all the
cowardices and wearinesses of the soul find their sanction!—
