It was, of course, his ascetic ideal that made Naphta call patriotism a scourge⁠—and what all did he not comprehend under the word, what all, according to him, did not run counter to the ascetic ideal and the kingdom of God. For not alone attachment to home and family, but even clinging to life and health were so set down; he made it a reproach to the humanist that the latter sang the praises of peace and happiness: quarrelsomely accused him of love of the flesh ( amor carnalis ) and dependence upon bodily comfort ( commodorum corporis ), and told him to his face that it was the worst sort of bourgeois irreligiosity to ascribe to health or life itself any importance whatsoever.