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"At the deathbed of Christianity.-- Really unreflective people are now
inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people
of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to
say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges
everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives
to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all
is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone
exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to
godhead - that is the best and most vital thing that still remains of
Christianity. But one should notice that Christianity has thus crossed
over into a gentle moralism: it is not so much 'God, freedom and immortality'
that have remained, as benevolence and decency of disposition, and the belief
that in the whole universe too benevolence and decency of disposition
prevail: it is the euthanasia of Christianity."
 

Freidrich Nietzsche, from "Daybreaks" 92, R.J. Hollingdale transl.