Nietzsche argued that there were two fundamental types of morality: 'Master morality' and 'Slave morality'. Master morality values pride, strength, and nobility, while slave morality values things like kindness, humility, and sympathy

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Slaves-Master Morality

According to Nietzsche, man can choose a difference set of values; they are not bound by conventional morality. According to him, religion makes man weak and coward. People are victims of the deception of religion. Nietzsche calls Christian tradition as slave morality. He says,

For slave morality has reason to be ashamed of its origin in resentment and is by its very nature dishonest. It is a morality that preaches forgiveness, but whose motivation is revenge, that preaches love as the incarnation of the evil, to be than it is. Like preaches what concern for souls is motivated by greed for money, slave morality is a big lie.

Nietzsche contends that Christian traditions are falsehood and deception to mankind for they believe in dogmas or relics which are not eternal facts. He writes,

The entire Christian teachings as to what shall be believed the entire Christians truth is idle falsehood and deception and precisely the opposite of what inspired the Christian movement in the beginning. Precisely that which is Christian in the ecclesiastical sense is anti Christian in essence; things and people instead of symbol; history instead of eternal fact, forms, relics and dogmas of a way of life.

However, for Nietzsche it is a time for slaves of morals to revolt, becoming creative and giving birth to the new values. He proclaimed that in order to become truly authentic, one must not bow down before the powers that are being imposed by the individual and must rebel instead against such forms of corruption by creating one’s morality. Nietzsche called this as master morality. Nietzsche describes master-morality as a higher type of man who creates his own values out of the abundance of his strength.

Moreover, Nietzsche maintains that Christianity proceeds principally from his view of its supposed or tortured conscience and unable to develop himself freely. It either prevented that God is dead. For him, the belief of God is a sign of weakness and cowardice. His rejection of God proved to himself his inner strength, his ability to live without God. Nietzsche asserts,

Belief in ourself is the strongest fetter and supreme whipping and the strongest wing. Christianity is denaturalization of herd animal morality. Accompanied by absolute misunderstand and self deception.

The Christian teaching is a falsehood of truth because their teaching is not base on what Jesus thought to them. Nietzsche also denies all values of Christian morality. He interprets that it is characteristic of slave morality for it represent inferior life. He explains,

Christianity has never put into practice, never put into practice that acts Jesus prescribed for them, and the impudent chatter about justification by faith and its unique and supreme significance is only the consequence of the church lack of courage and will to confess the works which Jesus demanded.

Nietzsche asserts that the belief in Christian morality will lead to meaningless. He says, the entire idealism of mankind is on the point of changing suddenly into nihilism into the belief absolute worthlessness that is meaningless.

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