_Concerning the history of Christianity._--Continual change of environment: Christian teaching is thus continually changing its _centre of gravity._ The favouring of _low_ and _paltry_ people.... The development of _Caritas...._ The type "Christian" gradually adopts everything that it originally rejected (_and in the rejection of which it asserted its right to exist_). The Christian becomes a citizen, a soldier, a judge, a workman, a merchant, a scholar, a theologian, a priest, a philosopher, a farmer, an artist, a patriot, a politician, a prince ... he re-enters all those _departments of active life_ which he had forsworn (he defends himself, he establishes tribunals, he punishes, he swears, he differentiates between people and people, he contemns, and he shows anger). The whole life of the Christian is ultimately exactly that life _from which Christ preached deliverance...._ The Church is just as much a factor in the _triumph_ of the Antichrist, as the modern State and modern Nationalism.... The Church is the barbarisation of Christianity. 214. Among the powers that have mastered _Christianity_ are: Judaism (_Paul_); Platonism (Augustine); The cult of mystery (the teaching of salvation, the emblem of the "cross"); Asceticism (hostility towards "Nature," "Reason," the "senses,"--the Orient ...). 215. Christianity is a denaturalisation of gregarious morality: under the power of the most complete misapprehensions and self-deceptions. Democracy is a more natural form of it, and less sown with falsehood. It is a fact that the oppressed, the low, and whole mob of slaves and half-castes, _will prevail._ First step: they make themselves free--they detach themselves, at first in fancy only; they recognise each other; they make themselves paramount. Second step: they enter the lists, they demand acknowledgment, equal rights, "Justice." Third step: they demand privileges (they draw the representatives of power over to their side). Fourth step: they _alone_ want all power, and they _have_ it. There are _three elements_ in Christianity which must be distinguished: _(a)_ the oppressed of all kinds, _(b)_ the mediocre of all kinds, _(c)_ the dissatisfied and diseased of all kinds. The _first_ struggle against the politically noble and their ideal; the second contend with the exceptions and those who are in any way privileged (mentally or physically); the third oppose the _natural instinct_ of the happy and the sound.