Good News for Losers

I recently picked up Michael Horton's new book, "Too Good to be True" and found this quote by Nietzsche in Horton's chapter entitled, "good news for losers." I found this quote very intriguing.

"The Christian movement is a degeneracy movement composed of reject and refuse elements of every kind...It is therefore not national, not racially conditioned; it appeals to the disinherited everywhere; it is founded on a rancor against everything well constituted and dominant: it needs a symbol that represents a curse on the well-constitued and dominant. It also stands in opposition to every spiritual movement, to all philosophy: it takes the side of idiots and utters a curse on the spirit. Rancor against the gifted, learned, spiritually independent: it detects in them the well constituted, the masterful. Dionysus [the god of revelry who was cut in pieces] versus the "crucified": there you have the antithesis. It is not a difference in regard to their martyrdom- it is a difference in the meaning of it... The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction."
-From The Will to Power