God is dead from "summary" of The Gay Science (the Joyful Wisdom) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The madman in the marketplace uttered these words: "Whither is God?" I will tell you. We have killed him - you and I. How did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Are we not continually falling? Backwards, sideways, forwards, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Do we not stray as through an infinite nothing? Does not empty space breathe upon us? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God?God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we console ourselves, the most murderous of all murderers? The holiest and the mightiest that the world has hitherto possessed, has bled to death under our knives - who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to seem worthy of it?
There has never been a greater deed; and whoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."
The madman realized the implications of what he was saying. The death of God was not just a statement about the divine, but a reflection on the state of humanity. Without God, there is a void that needs to be filled. The madman understood the weight of this realization - that we must now take on the responsibility of creating our own values, our own meaning in a world without a divine creator. The death of God is not just a philosophical concept - it is a call to action for humanity to step up and define our own existence.
The madman's words reverberate through the marketplace, challenging those who hear them to confront the reality of a world without God. It is a stark reminder of the fragility of our beliefs, and the power we hold in shaping our own destiny. As we grapple with the death of God, we must also confront the death of our illusions, our comforts, and our certainties. The madman
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