God Is Dead Analysis

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People view the statement “God is dead” as an aesthetic statement. They do not journey into the underlying or more obvious meanings of the quote. Even though Fredrick Nietzsche may have been an atheist, I do not believe he meant “God is dead” in a literal or aesthetic way. Nietzsche was pointing out that in society the cultural expansion of other religions and introduction of nihilism have changed Western society morally.
Americans, specifically, have ventured away from just Christianity and into new horizons. I believe that people have stopped following in their family 's footsteps of conforming to what is “acceptable” to their close family and friends. Realizing what they want to do with their lives and what religion is the best for them …show more content…

I just have several unanswered questions that nobody seems to be able to answer. The only way I would be able put the label “Christian” on myself is if I could full-hearted say I understand and have faith in the creation of a human ­ an idea ­ that people seem to entrust but cannot prove. I feel like people cannot label themselves a religion if they do not follow all the guidelines and morals. I understand that people make mistakes but if they are truly Christians there should not be any temptation or reason why they should break these rules (“Internet Encyclopedia of …show more content…

I have found that people who consider themselves Christian do not follow the Christian “Code of Morals,” the “Ten Commandments” and “The Seven Deadly Sins.” Envy, gluttony, and greed are among the sins listed in the “Seven Deadly Sins” but are the most obvious committed by Christians. People always want the biggest and best possessions and seem to be in a competition with their neighbors. They find pride in owning the largest, most expensive televisions and flaunt their 2016 cars like toys. The flaunters have no sense of empathy when it comes to less fortunate. Several times I have seen people speed past the Shriners men in their new cars simply because they have too much pride to donate any change to people in need. We westerners do not always appreciate what we have. We always seem to have the money for the newest iPhones but cannot donate a simple dollar to the third world countries.
God is dead to westerners. We feel as though we can toss labels on ourselves and do not enlist the values and morals that come along with them on ourselves. We feel as though we do not have to answer to anyone about the faults that we have in our religion. God is dead not because we have no morals but because we do not abide by them, we do not conform to the religions that we are supposed to live

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