Is God dead?: Why Nietzsche and Time magazine were wrong

From: Skeptic | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

"God is dead" Nietzsche

"Nietzsche is dead" God

SOMEWHERE, ON SOME LONG FORGOTTEN BATHROOM WALL, a wag scrawled the above graffito. It is a telling remark about our times that despite the fact God has been declared dead numerous times, He seems always to have the final word. What state of affairs has brought about this situation?

It was barely more than a century ago that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche penned the words for which he has become so famous, in a book considered by philosophers to be his greatest work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (18831885). After 10 years in mountainous ...

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