Catholicism#
Summary#
Nietzsche views Catholicism as deeply intertwined with the spirit of the Latin races, such that unbelief among Catholics represents a revolt against their racial character. He contrasts this with Northern peoples, for whom Christianity is foreign and abandoning it means returning to their native spirit. Even French skeptics with Celtic blood retain a Catholic quality in their thinking, exhibiting a “Roman logic” and religious sensibility that appears alien to German souls.