God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. ..."
— Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 125, tr. Walter Kaufmann
2007-03-23 12:53:08 · 17 answers · asked by Judas. S. Burroughs. 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As we created God--I guess we have the right to kill him as well.
2007-03-23 14:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by huffyb 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nietzche did say God is dead, but Nietzche died in 1900.
2007-03-23 13:06:54 · answer #2 · answered by footballplayer 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nietzche was a smart man, and I've heard that quote taken out of context. The first time I heard it, it seemed like he was proud of the fact that God is dead. But reading this, I think it means that he is asking everyone a moral question, as in, how could we be this dumb?
2007-03-23 12:57:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Nietzche's dead. And God was dead to him so he killed him...
2007-03-23 12:57:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nietzche was was in love with his sister. Personally, I don't trust people like that.
2007-03-23 13:02:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One thing is indisputable. Nietzche is dead. God's done too much in my life for me to agree with a dead man.
2007-03-23 12:58:05 · answer #6 · answered by kurtveritas 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
In reality, no, God isn't really dead. You may not believe that to be true, but I believe that based upon what I have deduced from the evidence out there.
In culture, yes, God is dead, and humans have killed him. In our human-centered culture that is prevalent in America and Europe, God is totally irrelevant. And people wonder why there is so much death, sex, and suffering in our great country. We have turned our ears away from God.
2007-03-23 13:03:46 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God still seems to be twitching, the job is not yet finished.
Go get a knife or club or something, there is work to be done here.
Read the whole thing, it is not very long
THE MADMAN----Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"---As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated?---Thus they yelled and laughed
The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him---you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us---for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."
Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke into pieces and went out. "I have come too early," he said then; "my time is not yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than most distant stars---and yet they have done it themselves.
It has been related further that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his requiem aeternam deo. Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but: "What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?"
Source: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882, 1887) para. 125; Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.]
2007-03-23 13:06:29 · answer #8 · answered by U-98 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
actually Nietche is Dead... God was and is and is to come
Neitche believed God was dead, He died of pity... he could see no use for mercy
but the real God's chief way of glorifying HImself is showing mercy and people gorify GOd leaning on the work of Jesus on the cross, believing for eternal life
Neitche missed the boat
2007-03-23 12:57:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if God is dead but we kill him each day with our stupidity.
2007-03-23 13:22:03 · answer #10 · answered by cynical 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the innocent idea of a god is dead. now god is more of a political tool. and that doesent necessarily mean hes only used in political debates and what not.
he can be used in any way to get people to think like those who employ him do.
2007-03-23 12:59:26 · answer #11 · answered by johnny.zondo 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋