Nietzsche

When Nietzsche wrote “God is dead,” most people think he was celebrating. He wasn’t. The full quote goes: “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” Then comes the part people skip: “How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?” Nietzsche saw the death of God as a crisis, not a victory. For centuries, God had been the foundation of meaning. Right and wrong. Purpose. The reason things mattered....

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....