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I've been reading Nietzsche and I kinda get what he means when talking about the death of God and its repercussions. But what I don't get is how the fuck God died. Haven't found a paragraph where Nietzsche explains this yet. The closest answer I've found is when he says some shit like "God had too much compassion for men". I interpret it as God was too stupid to give men free will, for them to just get over him. Did I get right or how the fuck God died?

>> No.21461883

>>21461863
God is only real insofar as people believe in him. God died because people stopped believing

>> No.21461901

>>21461863
God is only real insofar as people believe in him. God died because people stopped believing

>> No.21461904

>>21461863
He meant that if god exists he would have died from sadness due to all the horrible stuff we, his creation did.

>> No.21461911

>>21461863
He meant that God got yeeted in favor of enlightenment.

>> No.21461916

>>21461863
>I've been reading Nietzsche
>Nietzsche
stopped reading here.

>> No.21461917

>>21461863
It's the pre-internet version of clickbait.

>>21461904
I doubt that, because God can't die by nature of being God. God also has no needs, so he couldn't be affected by his creation in such a way.

>> No.21462399

>>21461863
God didn't die, we turned our back on Him which is basically the same thing until the next time He decides enough's enough and has another spergout. pray you live to see it.

>> No.21462501

>>21461863
>But what I don't get is how the fuck God died.
At least as far as the West goes, it means that an increasingly large number of people do not believe that the factual claims made by Christian denominations are true or find Christianity not worth believing in.

>> No.21462509

>>21461863
In previous centuries God was the answer and end of all things. Today, that is not the case.

>> No.21462517

>>21461863
"Hi, God! You look like you have something to say!"
"Yes I most certainly do!"
>I have to go now, my planet needs me

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>>21461863
god had too much compassion for man and he choked on his pity.

>> No.21462631

>>21461863
did you read the segment in the gay science where he says god is dead?

He even says it 'we killed him'. What does that mean? basically the will to truth seen in all western thought (this includes christianity) leads to a godless world. It's central in the evolution of western philosophy that the transcedental space that was once occupied by god became officially nothing. In consequence this nihilism permeates to other spheres of society, life and culture.

>> No.21462988

>>21462631
This. Research has found that Christianity’s emphasis on “truth” is also what leads many Christians to later become atheists. As Jesus himself said:

> So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

I always found it tragic in a way