Nietzsche reads Christian love and God's punishment of sinners in the afterlife as manifestations of hidden vengeance, not love—since there is no possibility of moral improvement for the damned, eternal punishment cannot be corrective and thus must be understood as pure retribution masquerading as love.
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“n thinks that Christian love purports to be this voice of objective justice but is really just the Pagan desire for vengeance in another form”
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