The Rebirth of GOD

You might think- when did the immortal ever die to be reborn again(or worse, does any such thing exist).
"God is dead" is a widely-quoted statement by German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. He proclaimed in his work "The Madman" as follows-:

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"

Seeing the anarchy and nihilism around us, many probably would tend to agree that we have murdered the creator of all. We, as one of His creations, should have given Him the due honor and regard by following natural order. But by our discriminatory, anarchic and realpolitik world orders we have killed him in spirit.

Nietzsche obviously doesn't talk about God as a physical being but as a set of moral principles and this is why I prefer to call it the Rebirth of God and not His Death.

His death would lead to NO world order and not just a bad or ugly world order.His death would mean that we have a succession race in demigods to assume the ultimate throne.It would mean an empty set of moral principles. It is His rebirth because all that we witness is a transformation in world order which is a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. Its a change in the Moral Principles and not its absolute dismissal.

We are still governed by our ethics. Its just that, like everything else it has undergone change. It's the change in our governing principles. This age isn't the age of sages. Its a lot more practical world and so are its morals. What was unethical earlier might be perfectly acceptable now ethically. What we can't afford to do is to get stuck in the debate of blacks and whites in a gray world. Drinking would have been a cardinal sin decades ago but today is socially and ethically very acceptable.

Now all of this might be highly subjective just as is the existence of God itself. But anyone who does believe in the death of God, blaming it on the atheists, is himself an atheist who just wants to blame someone else. Some might even disagree to admit his rebirth, claiming that he never died, but that might hinge towards fanaticism. Denying change is like denying existence.

Death of God might make for an interesting chapter in the book but one that would and could never materialise.

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