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I will deviate from the theme of this thread and this forum for a moment.
Throughout history there have been saints or gods, Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc ... They all preached humility, compassion, equalite, and peace.
Then, we have Zarathustra, Nietzsche's alter ego, who announces us the Uberman (it has nothing to do with superman or Marvel heroes). Nietzsche discovered that all gods are nihilistic, that is, enemyes of the life, the body and the will to power. He is especially critical with the Judeo-Christian religion and Platon, but he also attacked Kant and those who propose a herd moral.
That is why Zarathustra is a god who can dance, because he loves the land and his destiny, and accepts its, with his pain and tragedy, but also with his joy. Zarathustra is like a child, is free from all religious and metaphysical moral pollution, therefore, plays, is the only spirit that can create and also need to destroy in the act of creation.
Nietzsche's critique of Christianity was based largely on a misrepresentation/misunderstanding of what Jesus actually taught.
And Jesus dances, bro. He makes wine. He parties. Even more so, he loves us foolish sinners enough to become one of us, take our wickedness upon Himself, and allow Himself to be brutally tortured to death on our behalf.