Nietzsche is notorious for his vilification of Christianity. But why? This is a vast topic. Here we will merely touch on the most basic of his objections. Nietzsche considered himself the philosopher of the ‘Great Health’. As far as he was concerned, this put him squarely in opposition to Christianity, as it has been practised for two-thousand years; Christianity which taught, as an intrinsic value, the abnegation of the self and mortification of the flesh. ‘Man has bred for