![]() ![]() “Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche”, by Edvard Munch, c. For centuries, Christianity’s teachings about reality - that there exists a Creator outside time and space, and that we should abide by the rules of this Creator to ensure a good afterlife - were entirely dominant. Nietzsche was writing, of course, in the aftermath of the Enlightenment, a time in which science, mathematics, and philosophy arose across Europe to displace Christianity as the guiding authority on truth about life and the universe. And we have killed him.”īy these words, Nietzsche does not so much mean that atheism is true - indeed, in the passage from which they’re taken, these words are presented as fresh news to a group of atheists - he more means that, because “the belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable”, everything that “was built upon this faith, propped up by it, grown into it”, including “the whole of our European morality,” is destined for “collapse.” “God is dead,” the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously declares in his 1882 work, The Gay Science: “God remains dead. ![]()
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