Nietzsche's Curse on Christianity.

This article examines the development of Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christianity through three stages: his conventional stage, critical stage, and stage of outrage, culminating in his late work *The Antichrist: A Curse on Christianity*. Nietzsche's critique focuses not on Christian metaphysical doctrines but on the life-denying normative values Christianity promotes, particularly their psychological and cultural effects. While initially influenced by his Protestant background and contemporaries, Nietzsche progressively rejected Christianity's moral framework, associating it with the suppression of human excellence and the promotion of guilt and suffering. In his final stage, Nietzsche's critique intensifies into a vehement curse against Christianity, adopting the figure of the Antichrist to symbolize a radical, transformative rejection of Christian values aimed at purifying humanity for new beginnings.