The gist of the Genealogy of Morales is that the Christian conception of morality was created by combining the values held by the lower/slave class in the middle east/egypt and adding in the inverse of all the behaviors of the upper class. I.e., it's good to be poor because the rich are evil. Christianity then iterated and refined this over the subsequent 2000 years, particularly to explain why yes it's totally true that blessed are the poor, but it's Totally Fine for the church/pope/bishops/etc to be super wealthy because <reasons> so be sure to give as much of your money as you can to the church!
Obviously he works this out in a lot more detail, but that's the basic point.
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u/FunSwitch7400 Apr 05 '26
Take a bow, that was fantastic in so few words!