Nietzsche's line, "God is Dead"

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Nietzsche's Truth and Lies in the Ultramoral Sense: http://www.e-scoala.ro/biblioteca/friedrich_nietzsche.html
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[Buescher18]

That is, they are "atheists" who still believe in the Christian worldview insofar as it is metaphysically determined. Nietzsche's famous GS 344 passage "In what way we, too, are still pious" gives further explanation for this problem.

[Professoranton]

Thanks so much for this. I think that this is all right-minded and useful.

[SkepticsClaw]

I must say, I very much enjoyed this. Kind of a 'two-parter' between you and tooltime... and many new things to think about...

[Professoranton]

Thanks

[ThePointlessPoint]

". . . most Atheists. They do not care about anything but themselves."

that's a dumb generalization. there's just as many 'spiritual' people who are completely self-indulgent.

[SerialNumberInvalid]

god is dead, and porn has killed him. i enjoy porn more than prayer and worship. what can i say?

[hartforest]

Great comments, Prof Anton. I would say, and here I agree with Clement Rosset, Nietzsche's one and only theme running throughout the latter's work, is *the joyful approbation of the real* which is always changing, irredeemably tragic, and yet our only chance for joy! Nietzsche is perhaps the first philosopher to actively love (amor fati) the real with no desire to escape it and its tragedies. Some may object and point out the Stoics, but loving and enduring are not synonymous...-Joie

[traerne]

can you expand on the 3rd god or 3 views of god you mentioned? because my english professor was going on about something about heidegger which turned into him talking about how we havent really invented a new god in thousand of years since the nazarean jesus, the sympathising god, and what you mentioned about a third view of god kind of resonated with that...

[Peteromich]

@Codylangaugesblog I believe it's pronounced - "pree - ten- shush". Oh, sorry...but, wait, why am I apologizing? Pretense of humbleness? Perhaps pretension is, underneath and behind all our...pretentiousness, our favorite language after all?

[Peteromich]

@satelliteskin89 So, you would have the middle of a book serve as a starting point?

[Peteromich]

@satelliteskin89 No, please, don't bring Heiddegger into this. We'll all be dead soon....of boredom.

[Inthebeginnigwaslove]

Though, quite literally Nietzsche did not say "God is dead;" the madman did. This was, after all, a parable; not a biography.

Also, one may very well argue that Nietzsche is critiquing Christianity per say, however, the text itself does not mention this, nor does the content itself point to this. Instead, Nietzsche might be needling a kind of Christianity, or we might say he is needling an interpretation of Christianity that is rigorously provincial, or what Kierkegaard called 'Christendom.'