Afternoon Nietzsche bit

Today's bit - bitter, yet savory:

The needful sacrifice. -- These serious, excellent, upright, deeply sensitive people who are still Christians from the very heart: they owe it to themselves to try for once the experiment of living for some length of time without Christianity, they owe it to their faith in this way for once to sojourn 'in the wilderness'-- if only to win for themselves the right to a voice on the question whether Christianity is necessary. For the present they cleave to their native soil and thence revile the world beyond it: indeed, they are provoked and grow angry if anyone gives them to understand that what lies beyond their native soil is the whole wide world! that Christianity is, after all, only a little corner! No, your evidence will be of no weight until you have lived for years on end without Christianity: until you have wandered far, far away from it. Only if you are driven back, not by homesickness but by judgment on the basis of a rigorous comparison, will your homecoming possess any significance!-- Those of the future will one day deal in this way with all evaluations of the past; one has voluntarily to live through them once again, and likewise their antithesis-- if one is at last to possess the right to pass them through the sieve. -- Section 61 of Daybreak, Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality