‘God is dead’

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    Patrick Wood
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    What do you think about the assertion, ‘God is dead’ posed by Nietzsche?

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    Dan27183
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    If I remember correctly, Nietzsche’s suggestion is that society has become enlightened and evolved to the point that the concept of God is no longer necessary or beneficial. #1. This implies that God is a fairy tale created so man could sleep at night. #2. This implies that human society, western or otherwise, had always been in tune with the will of God in the past, or at least went through periods of being in accordance with the will of God. I believe neither premise is correct whatsoever. If it’s the notion that God died some time ago, then it makes no logical sense (God in principle is eternal, and in principle is who holds the universe together). If it’s ‘God is dead’ as an argument for atheism… well, that’s an argument that will keep on going until the end of the world.

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    Craig P.
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    ‘Nietzsche is dead’, responds God. — I have not studied Nietzshe’s philosophy so I do not know the source of the quote. If Nietzsche asserted that God had been alive then I would ask what proof he had that differs from the earlier proof that God was alive. Both theists and agnostics accept that, in general, everything has continued since the creation. If Nietzsche was saying that God simply can’t be alive then I see no difference from earlier agnostic philosophy. The Christian view of God requires that he eternally exist or he cannot be God. In the Bible he gives his name as ‘I am’.

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    Joshua Oreskovich
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    God is a christian term…christians believe he lives.. or maybe thats not answer you are looking for… how about the fact that God created everything and we know we exist therefore God through our knowledge of him has to exist… or… the simple fact that Niestche or whomever was an idiot? Notoriously dumb…=) But really now God does exist look around you are a creation…it had to begin somewhere by something…=)

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    JB21261
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    In fact, God has never lived! I can’t remember who said the following, but I agree totally: “I once believed the world was the creation of a sick and tormented God. I now know that God is the creation of a sick and tormented world.”

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    Andrea K.
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    In my view, since God is the Creator and Sustainer of the universe (and any others there may be), God cannot, by definition, be dead, or everything would stop. God had no beginning; neither will God have an end.

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    Jerome
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    God is blasphemed thus dead to men, for men acclaim god, HIS name (limiting), as Great, all-powerful, all-mighty, all knowing. These are attributes of Rational Mind’s “Egotism” in an “imbalanced” mind with the Subconscious Mind in corporal matter. “Believing in” this god (Hierarchy) brings about the ‘being’ of those belief descriptions, where masses of believers sacrifice them selves (taxes, etc) in support of the Great believer Autocrat … Man (Mind) is but the ‘practice’ of the eternal feelings of another soul.

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    JerryS
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    The assertion is meaningless, in the context of a monotheism such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. Either you do not believe in God, and that which does not exist cannot be either dead or alive in any meaningful way; or you believe in God, in which case ‘dead’ doesn’t apply as a concept.

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    becki
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    you say God is dead, which means you are saying he was once alive.. so you are saying that God existed.. but if God *once* existed and he can’t die.. then you are just contradicting yourself!~ duh. (btw.. i would like to read that essay.. could anyone tell me where i can find it?)

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    becki
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    You say God is dead, which means you are saying he was once alive. So you are saying that God existed. But if God once existed, and he can’t die, you are contradicting yourself. By the way, I would like to read that essay. Could anyone tell me where I can find it?

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    Michael20677
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    ‘God is dead’: ‘God’ as an idea is on the way out, religion is in for a decline from which it will never recover.

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    HYO24260
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    If you believe that God is dead because there is evil in the world, why do you not believe that he is alive because there is good in the world? -Some cool person.

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