The _Christians_ have done exactly what the Jews did before them. They introduced what they conceived to be an innovation and a thing necessary to self-preservation into their Master's teaching, and wove His life into it They likewise credited Him with all the wisdom of a maker of proverbs--_in short,_ they represented their everyday life and activity as an act of obedience, and thus sanctified their propaganda. What it all depends upon, may be gathered from Paul: it is _not much._ What remains is the development of a type of saint, out of the values which these people regarded as saintly. The whole of the "doctrine of miracles," including the resurrection, is the result of self-glorification on the part of the community, which ascribed to its Master those qualities it ascribed to itself, but in a higher degree (or, better still, it derived its strength from Him....) 191. The Christians have never led the life which Jesus commanded them to lead, and the impudent fable of the "justification by faith," and its unique and transcendental significance, is only the result of the Church's lack of courage and will in acknowledging those "_works_" which Jesus commanded. The Buddhist behaves differently from the non-Buddhist; but _the Christian behaves as all the rest of the world does,_ and possesses a Christianity of ceremonies and _states of the soul._ The profound and contemptible falsehood of Christianity in Europe makes us deserve the contempt of the Arabs, Hindoos, and Chinese.... Let any one listen to the words of the first German statesman, concerning that which has preoccupied Europe for the last forty years. 192. "_Faith_" or "_works_"?--But that the "works," the habit of particular works may engender a certain _set of values or thoughts,_ is just as natural as it would be unnatural for "works" to proceed from mere valuations. Man must practise, _not_ how to strengthen feelings of value, but how to strengthen action: first of all, one must be able _to do something...._ Luther's Christian Dilettantism. Faith is an asses' bridge. The background consists of a profound conviction on the part of Luther and his peers, that they are enabled to accomplish Christian "works," a personal fact, disguised under an extreme doubt as to whether _all_ action is not sin and devil's work, so that the worth of life depends upon isolated and highly-strained conditions of _inactivity_ (prayer, effusion, etc.).--Ultimately, Luther would be right: the instincts which are expressed by the whole bearing of the reformers are the most brutal that exist. Only in _turning absolutely away_ from themselves, and in becoming absorbed in the _opposite_ of themselves, only by means of an _illusion_ ("faith") was existence endurable to them. 193. "What was to be done in order to believe?"--an absurd question. That which is wrong with Christianity is, that it does none of the things that Christ _commanded._