Opposition to Opposites cont'd (Religion)

Relating back to Nietzsche, when he says that God is the father of evil. I'm not sure that necessarily makes God the father of good. Maybe he did mean that too, I'm not sure. Nietzsche was notoriously anti-christian. It is interesting that Nietzsche's father was a pastor. Also, I read (http://goinside.com/00/6/nietzsche.html), that Nietzsche wrote a poem to "the unknown God", at 20, saying "I want to know you -- even to serve you." But Nietzsche became one of the greatest critics of religion.

This is from the essay I linked to:

"The criticism of empathy and love Nietzsche challenged some of the main thoughts within Christianity in a very concrete way. Sometimes he seems to admire Jesus, and claims that the church made a picture of Jesus which is not veridical. He is skeptical to the church and its ideology, and claimed that the existential perversion which, according to him, Christianity represents, does not stem from Jesus himself, but from the church. According to Nietzsche there has only been one Christian, and he died on the cross. Nevertheless the teachings of Jesus that we find in the Gospels, are attacked by Nietzsche.

The Russian author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, claimed that pity was the essence of Christianity. In Matthew we read about Jesus that "When he saw the multitudes, he was moved by compassion for them." (Matt 9:36) Nietzsche was critical to the ideal of compassion in Christianity. In Anti-Christ he wrote that "Christianity is the religion of pity." The German thinker, claimed that pity had a depressive effect, and that this quality is opposed to those emotions and attitudes which lead to the promotion of life. "