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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
IF you're referring to Nietzsche's statement of "Gott ist tot" then you've simply not understood it. Nietzsche's statement meant that he made the observation that the Church, the Holy Roman Church, in Europe no longer had an unequivocal and complete control over society. And he was perfectly right to make the observation. And that observation is only extended and fortified in the next century. As of today, the influence of organized religion is marginal at best in most of the region Nietzsche had in mind.
To elaborate, it was that observation that lead him to investigate the kind of morality that would emerge in the absence of the absolutist perspective of an all-encompassing religion. Hence the notion of "Jenseits von Gut und Böse".
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As for the thread title, I'm still waiting for the announced explosion. Must be a real bummer for the anti-Muslim crowd.
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*chuckle*
Thanks for the condescending remark and the lecture. But there is no need...
And Nietzsche's comments were not the only ones I had in mind. The end of religious faith was predicted by Marx and by Shaw and by all the progressives who believed (assumed) that the inevitable progress that was part of their understanding of history would result in the destruction of religious belief. Progress as an inevitable process is obvioulsy dead, as the Victorians understood it.