text: What is uniquely and exclusively possible in and through Christ is the negation of historical expiation in the very instant of its promise. The economy of guilt/debt and retribution that Nietzsche correctly identifies as the root of Christian hate deprives fallen humanity of salvation by continually postponing its arrival. For those "uniquely ready" to receive the gospel—that is, those living towards death who find in the ecstasy of worldly pleasure an annihilative corollary—the Christian faith, with indiscriminate cruelty, opens the present as a wound that it will always prevent from healing. As a result of this wound, we can never look back, only forward, to the null point of impossibility. You, my friend, miss what is significant here: the eschatology of Judgment Day, far more than atheism, is a nihilistic refusal of messianic time. Where the latter might at least emancipate us to find our own salvation in history, the former lays history (and thus Portland) to waste.