Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm Shane Morris.

In The Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche criticized Christianity as a religion

for the week that teaches slave morality. He illustrated this with a story about

lambs and the birds of prey that eat them. Nietzsche suggested that if the lambs invented a morality,

it would be inverted depicting the powerful birds of prey,

their natural masters, as evil,

and the vulnerable lambs, the natural slaves, as good.

Nietzsche believed the birds of prey should follow their instincts, and so considered this type

of inverted morality deeply unnatural.

Quote, to require of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be

a wish to overpower, a wish to overthrow, a wish to become master, a thirst for enemies

and antagonisms and triumphs, is just as absurd as to require of weakness that it should express

itself as strength."

Recently, billionaire and PayPal co-founder Peter Teal agreed with Nietzsche, sort of.

Appearing on the Trigger Nomatry podcast, Teal criticized woke political ideology for its fixation on victimhood

and suggested that it got that fixation from Christianity.

Quote, Christianity, the main religion of the Western world, always takes the side of the victim.

And maybe you should think of wokeness as an ultra-Christianity or a hyper-Christianity. It's just like an extreme intensification and there's no

forgiveness you still have original sin and you have all these bad things that

happened in the past, the past is terrible and you can never overcome it, but there surely is a religious interpretation of this."

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