Religion has always been connected to "three dangerous dietary prescriptions: solitude, fasting and sexual abstinence" (§47), and has exerted cruelty through demanding sacrifice according to a "ladder" with different rungs of cruelty, which has ultimately caused God himself to be sacrificed (§55). Christianity, "the most fatal kind of self-presumption ever", has beaten everything joyful, assertive and autocratic out of man and turned him into a "sublime abortion" (§62). If, unlike past philosophers such as Schopenhauer, we really want to tackle the problems of morality, we must "compare "many" moralities" and "prepare a "typology" of morals" (§186). In a discussion that anticipates "On the Genealogy of Morality", Nietzsche claims that "Morality is in Europe today herd-animal morality" (§202)—i.e., it emanates from the "ressentiment" of the slave for the master (see also §260, which leads into the discussion in "Genealogy", I).