>>2447985"The Christian God is a God of the 'poor in spirit,' of those who weep, who are persecuted for justice's sake, of the meek, the pure in heart, the peacemakers. This is a complete subversion of the traditional hierarchy based on the values of the spirit, of power, of command, of the virtus that is proper to a regal and sacred nobility… The 'blessed' of the evangelical Beatitudes are precisely those who in any rigorous traditional civilization would have been considered the 'unblessed,' the viles, the failures."
"The central point is that the Christian revolution consisted in a surrender of the heroic and sacral values of the ancient world in favor of a religion of the 'slaves,' a religion that sanctified the values of the humble, the suffering, the poor, the meek, and the powerless… The ideal was no longer the hero, but the saint; no longer the conqueror, but the martyr; no longer power, but poverty."
"The idea of 'sin' is one of the most effective weapons in this process of degradation. It creates a guilty conscience in regard to everything that is healthy, strong, and autonomous, and it exalts the values of obedience, humility, and repentance."
"The shift from a religion of law and action to a religion of faith and belief is a sign of involution. The devotional, sentimental, and fideistic aspect of Christianity, which addresses itself to the 'heart' and not to the spirit, to feeling and not to the intellect, is a form of spiritual regression… It corresponds to a femininization of the sacred."