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?
"what are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchres of God?"
– Nietzsche
2007-12-01 04:17:23 · 7 answers · asked by Guts 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I do understand what your saying..........and it does seem that way a lot of the time............we still have growing pains after all of these hundreds of years. Do you think that they will ever learn? Man seems content to kill everything......the Creator spent all that time creating a beautiful place for us to abuse....he even went as far as saying after wards and it is good....then they change every detail of every thing that he gave and kill it in the end........and they say that Satan or the devil made me do it or it's his world for the moment.........passing the buck are we..........?
But as for creating new Gods............no.........they would just kill him/her too....................!
Have a great day!
2007-12-01 04:34:14 · answer #1 · answered by rainbowmatrixs 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ugh. It's sad how many people haven't even heard of Nietzsche. But I digress.
Me, I feel no remorse for the death of a fantasy god, because gods were an abomination of thinking that we should have never invented in the first place, though one could argue that gods and spirits might be inevitable creations for primitive, ignorant people with no science or rational thought. Still, isn't it about time that we as a species matured, and left all these gods and other superstitions behind? Nietzsche was on to something in that respect.
"Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks--those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest." -- Friedrich Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
We are not creations of the gods, but creators of them.
2007-12-01 06:12:40 · answer #2 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nietzsche meant "God is dead" as a lamentation.
There is no need to create new gods. Man has enough of them already.
One is sufficient for yours truly.
2007-12-01 04:21:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
So are you saying that God use to be alive but that we, as His creations, have killed Him? How can someone without beginning die? And how do you kill a Spirit? You should think before you type.
Fatdude is right, One God is sufficent for us all.
2007-12-01 04:23:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
we have already have made our own gods look to the news and watch celebs........
yet we have no need for gods any more we must look inward to see the god/goddess in oueselves
2007-12-01 05:16:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wth. no, no one can kill God. Jesus *wiped the blood off us*, with his blood. he cleaned us... the greatness of the deed was too great for us, yeah, so Jesus did it...
and no we can't be gods... the God i know is the only real one...
agree with stef
2007-12-01 04:27:06 · answer #6 · answered by Marie 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
rainbow's right - what's to stop murderers killing again?
"dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you" (MM, Godeatgod)
2007-12-01 04:40:39 · answer #7 · answered by kleptomanic sheep 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋