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 		29 HHDL, 161-3.
30 Ibid. 164.
31 Nietzsche felt that Christianity's desire to know and seek the truth lead to its destruction as Old Testament stories have been historically and scientificallly invalidated.
32 Ibid. 139-143.
33 Ibid. 140.
34 Nietzsche develops the error of free will as one of the four great errors of humanity in Twilight of the Idols. Religion, in this particular case Judaism, imposed the idea of free will in order to lord blame and punishment over people for their strictly determined actions. The parallel is clear here with karma, though on a more sinister level.
35 Ibid. 195.
36 Bodhisattva is a Buddhist term for someone who has attained enlightenment.
37 Ibid. 206.

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