What does Friedrich Nietzsche mean when he said “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”
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He’s talking about the philosophical concept of God. Philosophers have moved beyond religion. It’s considered obsolete, for their purposes, so the concept is dead.
God is dead is essentially the distillation of Nietzsche brand of nihilists philosophy. As Nietzsche saw it the concept of god could no longer fulfill the role it once did as society. For a very long time society was governed under the idea that things are the way they are because god wants it that way. enlightenment ideals had essentially killed those notions. God is dead and there is no going back so what now.
The notion that Human Progress is moved beyond the practices and beliefs of Christianity and when scrutinised the world today can no longer be accounted for by God. Some optimistically believe in God and Nietzsche has a tendency to be artful and bombastic so it isn’t exactly we have discredited or dismissed God but rather have encountered ideas and phenomena that the Bible can’t give answers for. Nietzsche often talks about Nihilism and Existentialism over Christianity as a means to provide greater insight into an individual’s purpose and quest in life.
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