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God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a moment for celebration and the opening of the possibility for new modes of valuation.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a notion whereby it is not as important that he is dead as it is that we killed him (by developing scientific thought). We have not dealt with the consequences that without our noticing, the world as a whole has become a dark, cold, and frighteningly confusing place.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a solution that released man from guilt.

God is dead (n.) draws ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠our attention to a loss of faith within the world. The most significant event in the 19th century is that Christianity has lost its hold over the majority of the europeans, especially over the majority of intellectuals.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the end of all claims of transcendental realities, everything that has ever been subsumed in the concept of 'God': Other worlds, ultimate realities, 'things in themselves'.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that the suprasensory world is without effective power. It bestows no life. Metaphysics is at an end and thus a philosophy must be developed as the countermovement to metaphysics.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that we are the murderers of all murderers.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that we no longer have a language to talk about God.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the idea that, among other things, belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable and the slow and uneven march towards secularization, even Christianity itself, has gradually rendered such ideas unnecessary and irrelevant, transforming faith into dishonesty.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not just the intellectual discrediting of God (which had already happened), but rather the idea that Christian morality, which was still clung to, could no longer be taken as valid and so must be reconsidered.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the case, however, considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

God is dead (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the making explicit of the increasingly dominant sense that the universe, and human life, are inherently pointless: there is no ‘true world’ for our knowledge to discover and no permanent values beneath the show of appearances. All the highest values now devalue themselves.