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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 5319343" data-attributes="member: 63706">I think it can be taken several ways. If he&#039;s an atheist, then clearly he&#039;s not talking about a literal God, but what the idea of God represents. On the other hand, if he believes in God, clearly we can&#039;t literally kill God, so I guess either way he&#039;s speaking figuratively, but each perspective provides its own meaning of what he&#039;s saying.I honestly don&#039;t know whether Nietzsche was an atheist or not. Some people actually use this quote to support an atheist world view. But I don&#039;t think it really matters what he believed. I think he was talking about killing off the belief in God that helped man understand his place in the universe, and humbled him to a point of being careful about how he progressed and treated his fellow humans. Without a belief in God, people have no moral absolute against which to measure his actions. Man ascends to the highest authority of godhood in his own mind. Literally anything becomes fair game, and man&#039;s pride and hubris will grow faster and faster until he lays waste to everything around him.It is an inherent weakness in man, which leads to all his problems. No system devised has ever been able to overcome that weakness, excepting that man truly believe in God.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 5319343, member: 63706"] I think it can be taken several ways. If he's an atheist, then clearly he's not talking about a literal God, but what the idea of God represents. On the other hand, if he believes in God, clearly we can't literally kill God, so I guess either way he's speaking figuratively, but each perspective provides its own meaning of what he's saying. I honestly don't know whether Nietzsche was an atheist or not. Some people actually use this quote to support an atheist world view. But I don't think it really matters what he believed. I think he was talking about killing off the belief in God that helped man understand his place in the universe, and humbled him to a point of being careful about how he progressed and treated his fellow humans. Without a belief in God, people have no moral absolute against which to measure his actions. Man ascends to the highest authority of godhood in his own mind. Literally anything becomes fair game, and man's pride and hubris will grow faster and faster until he lays waste to everything around him. It is an inherent weakness in man, which leads to all his problems. No system devised has ever been able to overcome that weakness, excepting that man truly believe in God. [/QUOTE]

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