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Nietzsche: The Death of God

Nietzsche is showing the inevitable unfolding anthropocentrism (lit. putting


man at the centre of the world) implicit in philosophy since Kant. If we view
our existence through human categories, then our concept of God is itself
a human creation.
Nietzsche is not simply asserting his atheism; he is suggesting that once
we are aware that the concept of God is our own creation we can no
longer base our religious and moral beliefs on any notion of a divine
external reality.
In the period that Nietzsche was writing, the death of God was just
beginning. Western thought was starting to face the prospect of a radical
change in its orientation, and it wasn't quite ready to own up to it yet.
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche represent opposite reactions to the inability of
rationality to give a rock solid theoretical proof of God's existence.
Kierkegaard calls for us to embrace God even if it seems an absurdity,
while Nietzsche says it is time for us to create a new mode of being, with
human creativity at its centre.

Nietzsches argument about the God of Christians


According to Christianity, God is an orderly, purposive, and moral being,
who has, therefore, given his creation an orderly structure, made it part of
his grand plan, and established objective moral values. What Nietzsche
sees is that this world is chaotic and does not have order, purpose and
moral values. Therefore, the Christian God does not exist.
(1. If God is an orderly, purposive, and moral being, who has, therefore,
given his creation an orderly structure, made it part of his grand plan, and
established objective moral values
2. This world is chaotic and does not have order, purpose, and moral
values.
3. If this world does not have order, purpose, and moral values then,
therefore the God pf Christians does not exist.

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