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http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/what-nietzsche-really-meant-by-god-is-dead

didn’t mean that there was a God who had actually died, rather that our idea of one had. After the Enlightenment, the idea of a universe that was governed by physical laws and not by divine providence was now reality. Philosophy had shown that governments no longer needed to be organized around the idea of divine right to be legitimate, but rather by the consent or rationality of the governed — that large and consistent moral theories could exist without reference to God. This was a tremendous event. Europe no longer needed God as the source for all morality, value, or order in the universe; philosophy and science were capable of doing that for us. This increasing secularization of thought in the West led the philosopher to realize that not only was God dead but that human beings had killed him with their scientific revolution, their desire to better understand the world.

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Just now, fuggnificent said:

Oh u lost hopeless child. Might as well ask me what good sex feels like.

If you really think about it, there's not much difference between believing in God and believing in Santa Claus. The difference being that your parents never tell you, "Oh you know that God guy we told you about when you were little? Yeah, he's made up."

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Just now, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

If you really think about it, there's not much difference between believing in God and believing in Santa Claus. The difference being that your parents never tell you, "Oh you know that God guy we told you about when you were little? Yeah, he's made up."

Im blessed enough to have divine intervention in my life tho.

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