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Christianity prerequisite for reading Nietzsche

I'm somewhat ashamed to say it, but I haven't read much of Nietzsche himself. I've mainly read secondary sources on him and I've only read The Birth of Tragedy and Philosophy in the Tragic age of the Greeks by him. I know a good deal about the presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Schopenhauer, and Kant, but should I know any Christian writers? Is Nietzsche responding to Christianity as a whole or to certain writers? If so, what about theology and religion should I know about prior to reading the Genealogy of Morals and stuff like that?
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If you have even a basic understanding of Christianity, you'll be fine. His criticisms of Christianity are broad enough to apply to essentially any organized religion. However, the historiography of Nietzsche posits him squarely in a Christian society, which is more of what he's reacting to as opposed to specific tenants of the religion itself.