Religious cruelty#
Summary#
Religious cruelty has ascended through three great rungs of sacrifice. First, humanity sacrificed human beings to their gods, including those most beloved. Then, during the moral epoch, they sacrificed their strongest natural instincts, as seen in the cruel joy of ascetics. Finally, the ultimate cruelty emerged: sacrificing God himself for nothingness, worshipping stone, stupidity, gravity, and fate in his place.