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The basis of that isn’t Christianity, it is morality that existed before Christianity which Christianity adopted. Nietzsche referred to it as “slave morality” - the idea is that by redefining the behaviours of subjugated people as virtuous rather than compelled, it gives them power and agency
You might be right, but regardless of the origin, the belief was popularized in the West because of Christianity. Unless you're suggesting that Nietzsche is merely pointing out an intrinsic feature of all human morality, but I don't know his work well enough to decide either way on that.
It’s a bit like saying that Easter is a Christian holiday, when everyone knows it’s a rebranded general fertility-themed holiday. Christianity didn’t really popularise the morality, they just made it about them.