2026-08-24 20:23 UTC
When Nietzsche wanted to pass along the news that maybe God was dead, he wrote a fable about a madman with a lantern, going around looking for evidence of God, peering into everyone's faces because surely if God were to be found somewhere it'd be in human belief. Did anyone around Nietzsche still believe in God? His fable, a very small part of The Gay Science, suggests that all such belief had died out of the world, at least the European world.
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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-08-24 20:25
That way Nietzsche could feasibly claim that he himself wasn't saying "God is Dead!" even though, of course, that's how every carping #Christian fanatic interpreted Nietzsche's fable. They do that with everything: Christian fanatics of that sort have erased all subtle distinctions among different sorts of writing from their understanding. All texts are "literal" to them (i.e. they're physical objects that can be used to hurt people with.) (cont'd)