How Did Nietzsche's View On Religion

Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx were intellectuals with vastly different world views and opinions on how things should be run but the one matter in which they would both agree leaves a bad taste in their mouths is Christianity. Nietzsche see Christianity as a blight upon humans, something holding us back from our fullest potential. Karl Marx does not necessarily see Christianity as the great evil that Nietzsche makes it out to be, but he would agree that complicated monolith that is Christianity is holding us back. Both individuals want Christianity gone, but their reasoning and purposes behind make this mutual desire a little less mutual. Friedrich Nietzsche makes it fairly obvious from his book “Twilight of the Idols” that he shares no deep love for religion but the religion he seems to harbor the most hate for is Christianity. He believes that Christianity itself wages a war on
He says this in response to the Church teaching that one should remove passion and desires from one’s life so that they are not tempted by them. As the quote makes obvious, Nietzsche firmly disagrees. But Nietzsche is not advocating for the indulgence of desire and passion. He thinks this “eradication”, as he puts it, of passion is only feeding into people that were too weak willed to resist this temptation to begin with and it would not be needed if they were stronger. (26, Twilight of the Idols) Another teaching Christianity attempts to teach, that Nietzsche firmly disagrees with, is peace with one another and having a good conscience. Nietzsche believes this peace people are trying to find merely weakens them and having enemies is actually good, not only for the individual but also the state and he even goes so far as to say “One has relinquished great life when one relinquishes war.”(Twilight of the Idols,