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 In his article "Self-Creation or God's Creation? Mistaken Identities and Nietzsche's Madman," Nathanael Blake writes - "The death of God is more than disbelief in God or the flat statement that God does not exist. From his first declaration of the death of God (in a story about a madman who initially seeks God only to announce his death), Nietzsche described a psychological and cultural event rather than a triumphant philosophical postulate. The madman in Nietzsche's parable announces the death of God to 'many people standing about who did not believe in God.' Indeed, they had mocked him for his initial insane search for God. He is no obnoxious apostle of unbelief, come to tell believers how stupid they are. "Rather, he is a seeker after God who realizes the implications of the unbelief surrounding him, which he comes to share. Those who first disbelieved remain oblivious to the death of God, even though they have themselves killed Him. The madman concludes that he has come too early: “Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard. This deed is as yet further from them than the furthest star — and yet they have done it!' "Because the death of God is not mere unbelief but a result of it, those who killed God were unaware of what they have done. They still lived with many of the comfortable moral pieties derived from established Christianity, even though they no longer believed in the source." The current "identity politics" craze is the delayed result of Nietzsche's "Death of God" philosophy, because if there is no Creator, we must create our own identities. But we are simply incapable of really and fully erasing what we have been created as and creating something totally new and different. Instead, we make a mess of what we were created to be and become: created in God's image and transformed into the likeness of Jesus the Christ. Get the whole story: read the full article & get our free weekly newsletter: subscribe below! |