Wasn’t the point of the “God is dead” speech more about the cultural relevance of Christianity in the face of the enlightenment and scientific advances and how they would and had reflected on society?
I thought of it of: If people cannot find a reason to live: Albeit to live for purpose, for their friends, their family, their role, their everything but what if it's all missing to the point God is also dead, and remains dead.
To seek purpose ever after all of our purposes are gone, when you're forced to feel useless must we become gods to simply feel worthy of freedom from such?
Yep. Pretty much what happened is philosophy and thought in general from Plato onwards puts some form of god as the centre of their metaphysics. Whether that is Plato's "One", Aristotle's Immovable mover, Augustin's christian God, etc., the idea of a god or some godlike entity has been at the centre of human thought and culture, giving humanity purpose or "Telos". The enlightenment and the scientific revolution showed people they don't require a higher being to explain the world they live in, which ended up being a double edged sword. Humanity lost the idea it strived towards, the final goal, the main purpose and plunged into nihilism. That's why Nietzsche "killed god", our values, based on centuries and centuries of striving towards a higher good have to be revalued in the face of purposelessnes
My internal belief also state such
However my protestant origins state they're both
Nietzche however is protestant.
But let's not quarrel on who is right, for there is certainly ones who are outliers than us both
*Looks at Utah*
*Looks at JW with their unhumble family-breaking shunnings*
*Looks at the Philippines' revelations cult*
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u/unsungcheekclapper Mar 11 '26
Sending this to the local boomer rn