What did Nietzsche mean with "God is dead"?

[Meticulous Man]

I guess most of us have heard the famous quote from Nietzsche, but what is its context? What did he actually mean with the phrase "God is dead"?

[Ecthy]

What did Faithless mean with "God is a DJ"?

[Ecthy]

What did Faithless mean with "God is a DJ"?

[Bereta_Eder]

Nietze was a bit loco

[BeBMan]

Let´s wait until Gepap comes and explains us. Meanwhile we could spa....errrmmm....bump the thread

[Bereta_Eder]

but nothing compared to Goethe
why not go for the cute german romantics the likes of Hesse? At least something you'll understand (not to be underestimated)

[BeBMan]

Goethe? He didn´t went nuts IIRC.

[Bereta_Eder]

Have you ever tried to actually read Faust?

[Meticulous Man]

Ecth, feel free to share with us your viewpoints on Nietzsche's idea of god and his death.

[BeBMan]

Yeah, we read it at school (at least part I) -- it´s difficult. But not crazy

And maybe something is lost in the translations, but some parts of it eg. the "Osterspaziergang" ("easter walk"?) are really beautiful...

[MikeH]

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, "I seek God! I seek God!" As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...

Whither is God," he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him...

Friedrich Nietzsche. The Gay Science (1882), section 126

So, Neitzsche didn't say it, he got a character to say it. Big difference.

In The Antichrist (1888), Nietzsche says:

The Christian conception of God... is one of the most corrupt conceptions of God arrived at on earth..." And, when he was already close to insanity, he called himself "the Anti-Christ.

Basically, he's saying that the shared cultural belief in God, which until then had been a shared European concept, was/is dead.

[BeBMan]

But isn´t the Anti-Christ higly biased?

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by BeBro
Yeah, we read it at school (at least part I) -- it´s difficult. But not crazy

And maybe something is lost in the translations, but some parts of it eg. the "Osterspaziergang" ("easter walk"?) are really beautiful...

Well I kind of made a self inflicting injury and I bought the book for myself. It is one of the very few books, actually basically the only one I've encountered, where I just couldn't make sense of it! Not in the slightest! Maybe it's the translation but it really didn't make any sense to me. I suppose it's one of these books where it's good to have some guidance when reading it. But it wasn't even proper greek... some kind of strange language.

[Bereta_Eder]

maybe the translator was crazy

[MikeH]

Originally posted by BeBro
But isn´t the Anti-Christ higly biased?

No idea, I did what any sensible person would do. I google searched for the thread title and copied and summarised the first result in my own words.