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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

The State of Theology: Heaven? Yes! Hell, No.


In a bleak moment in a bleak text, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche has the Madman declare:
‘Where is God gone?’ he called out. ‘I mean to tell you! We have killed him, you and I! We are all his murderers! But how have we done it? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the whole horizon? What did we do when we loosened this earth from its sun?’

The Madman continues to lament, “Has it not become colder? Does not night come on continually, darker and darker?”
This infamous “God is dead” speech by Nietzsche underscores the implications of a world without God. Nothing awaits but darkness. Nietzsche was carrying out liberalism to its logical conclusion. A tamed god is ultimately a god of our own making. A god of our own making is really no god at all. Read more

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