Nietzsche Wasn't Celebrating
When Nietzsche wrote “God is dead,” most people think he was celebrating. He wasn’t. He was diagnosing a problem. A massive one. For centuries, God gave people answers. Why are we here? What should we do? What happens when we die? Christianity provided a complete framework for meaning. Then science happened. Philosophy happened. People started questioning. By Nietzsche’s time, many educated Europeans had stopped believing, even if they kept going to church....