Why Totalitarians MUST Be Anti-Christian

Totalitarians have been anti-Christian since Christianity began.  There's a reason for that, and Nietzsche voiced it very well.

...What Nietzsche most hated, and the demise of which he most looked forward to, was the egalitarianism that Christianity had introduced into Western civilization. As he writes in The Will to Power:

The “Christian ideal”: … attempt to make the virtues through which happiness is possible for the lowliest into the standard ideal of all values… (185)

Through Christianity, the individual was made so important, so absolute, that he could no longer be sacrificed: but the species endures only through human sacrifice -- All souls become “equal” before God: but this is precisely the most dangerous of all possible evaluations! If one regards individuals as equal, one calls the species into question, one encourages a way of life that leads to the ruin of the species: Christianity is the counterprinciple to the principle of selection… [read: eugenics]

This universal love of men is in practice the preference for the suffering, underprivileged, degenerate: it has in fact lowered and weakened the strength, the responsibility, the lofty duty to sacrifice men. (246)

What is it we combat in Christianity? That it wants to break the strong… (252)

And in The Antichrist Nietzsche famously says:

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.

What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. ...

Ed Feser, from whom the above was snatched, has plenty more.

Nietzsche, no matter what you think of the above, was no fool.  He understood very well that eliminating God ("God is dead") has consequences for society, and he outlined some of them above.

...For Nietzsche, when modern intellectuals “believe that they know ‘intuitively’ what is good and evil, when they therefore suppose that they no longer require Christianity as the guarantee of morality,” this is a delusion, and in fact reflects nothing more than the historical “effects of the dominion of the Christian value judgment and… the strength and depth of this dominion” even if “the origin of [the] morality has been forgotten” (Twilight of the Idols, p. 516)....

The upshot?

By “the whole of our European morality,” he was not talking merely or even primarily about the rules of traditional sexual ethics against which the modern liberal has such a weird animus (and which are not unique to Christianity or Europe in any event). He was talking about everything that has counted as morality in European culture, including the values modern egalitarian liberals still prize, and which Kant, Mill, and other modern ethicists of whom Nietzsche is harshly critical tried to give a secular foundation. Since Nietzsche despised that morality, he thought its disappearance was a good thing and opened the door to something better. But he knew that the transition would be ugly, that the path to a new order was uncharted, and that the precise nature of the destination was unclear.  

One part of that European-culture morality (certainly present in the US) is "property rights," which some would say is foundational to this Republic.  It certainly IS one of the foundations of Christianity--look no further than the 7th and 10th Commandments for validation of that claim.  

So.  Eugenics.  Abortions.  Ending property rights.

Look familiar?

Totalitarians cannot co-exist with Christianity, nor God, for that matter.  Get this straight:  "Going to church" does NOT equal "Christian."  And--at this time--regular church-goers in this country are a distinct minority.

Worried yet?