The Death of Atheism and the Birth of Malignant Gods
When Nietzsche made his proclamation “God is dead,” that death had in
fact already occurred quite some time previously. He predicted the
century of genocide that was to be the Twentieth Century. In a sense
Nietzsche’s writings simply articulated and recorded what most already
understood. Nietzsche marked this historical event in approximately 1899,
the same year Freud completed The Interpretation of Dreams. Nietzsche was
stating what had become uncomfortably obvious: In light of empirical
science, burgeoning technology and contemporary economics, faith in a
personal God had disappeared --died-- from the educated classes. And this
death had begun even before Darwin, who had described the basics of
evolution as we now know it in the Origin of the Species in 1859,
thirteen years before Nietzsche’s first major work the Birth of Tragedy
was published 1872. We were entering a terrifying age of nihilism and for
Nietzsche our obligation was to develop life-embracing moralities to stem
the consequences of the death of God.
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Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
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"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them."
* Louis Nizer
(02/06/1911 - 11/10/1994)
English-US lawyer
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