LINK Friedrich Nietzsche - The Gay Science : Book III - Aphorism # 125
The aphorism where Nietzsche famously remarks: "God is dead."
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Nietzsche foresaw the present time when the churches themselves have abolished "God". But he already saw them do it in his own time. Because religious leaders who claimed influence throughout society had neglected their duty outside the churches (as well as inside), we are where we are.
Duty outside the churches comprises contributing to maintaining the basis of ethics and logic regardless of any gods, and they didn't do it. I go with Aristotle's Nicomachean ones, which are 2,400 years more up to date and are full of mental virtues.
Honest atheists are mirroring the churches' ( * ) dishonest overt position while militant atheists are mirroring the churches' dishonest policy.
( * = most church institutions and most of their "leaders" )
HenAgnDon
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Sadly the churches to survive and prosper, have to provide an alternate voice, which offers something that mainstream society and philosophy does not. And when, especially post socialism, mainstream society began to become the main source of ethics and logic, the churches had to head into the darkness.
Implying he lived. He was a myth that we grew out of.
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