What Does It Mean To Say God Is Dead

The phrase "God is dead" does not mean that Nietzsche believed in an actual God who has actually died, but the idea of him is gone in the modern world. Rather, it conveys his view that the Christian God is no longer a credible source of everyone’s daily lives and values. Year by year there are less believers in the Christian faith and I believe that this is what Nietzsche is referring to. Nietzsche recognizes the crisis that the death of God represents for existing moral assumptions. When someone gives up the Christian faith, it does not only affect that person but everyone around them. By breaking one main concept out of Christianity, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. This is why in "The Madman", a passage which primarily addresses the

Descartes is often regarded as the first thinker to emphasize the use of reason to develop the natural sciences. For him the philosophy was a thinking system that embodied all knowledge, and expressed it in this way. We must accept God as the existence of ideas. The idea of God must come from outside of someone’s thoughts and ideas. I find it hard for people to think like Descartes and many people are pushed away from looking at the existence of God because they find it hard to understand and believe what is actually going on. Also people are selfish and interested in things that only affect them. If you ask someone to do something usually that person will only do it if it only benefits them. We need to turn away from this idea and do things just to help other people because it is what God intended us to do when he created us. However, I believe that we should not see God as an idea or subject but we should try and be the best and help the creation for God. I think modernity should be less focused on God but more focused on the creation. God created the creation therefore we should focus on the creation of God instead of the

Hitchens has many ideas that Christians struggle with answering today. For example, why must we praise God if creation comes to him naturally, if God can heal a blind person then why not heal blindness, and with all continual prayer, why no result? I believe at some point many Christians have asked their selves these questions. However, there is not really a definite answer to these questions. Hitchens believes that the Christian people want to believe in a higher order because we are scared of not having anything to believe in and use it to comfort us from the truth of love ones that have passed away. So what Hitchens is trying to get at is that human beings have a tendency towards being "faithful". Hitchens also argues that religion will remain in the human ideas as long as human beings cannot overcome their primitive fears, particularly that of their own mortality. Hitchens and Nietzsche mostly have different viewpoints of how we view God. Nietzsche believes we have changed the way of how we look at religion and that we have mistreated the way it is intended to be used. However, Hitchens sees religion as a cover up to hide us from reality and our natural