/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

>>412633
>God is dead
A synonym to "there is no God" and "God is just bullshit"

That's pure blasphemy, and Christians must fight them, regardless of any ideology. God does exist and He sent his son to Earth to liberate commoners from death due to sin.

>>412633
It means that society has become secular. It doesn't matter whether or not God exists, it just means that religion as a social force is no longer relevant in and of itself.

>>412640
>liberate commoners from sin
That is a heretical assertion, as if non-commoners are free of sin

>>412641
So he was wrong?

>>412652
Well he obviously only meant the west

>>412655
Okay fair enough

>>412645
Non commoners too. Everyone is liberated by HIS SON'S BLOOD.

It's an expression of post-theism, which is the synthesis of theism and atheism.

It means humanity's pursuit of truth has eroded every basis for objective values.

>>412633
The old Christian morals - themself a transvaluation of the morals of antiquity - have grown stale and society (or the overman) must find new values to cherish.

Continuing to believe in 'God' - or Christian morality - is to hold on to a decaying corpse who miasma is corroding your lungs

>>412680
>Continuing to believe in 'God' - or Christian morality - is to hold on to a decaying corpse
Well… first of all if you stray from those morals you're automatically sinning.

I used to think that too, but recent events suggests that God may be real and helping us destroy the Great Satan USA

Internet spergs have been arguing over the 19th century Feuerbachian dichotomy of theism vs atheism, when god was dead all along.
All religions belong to a particular phase of human development, and disintegrate when society qualitatively changes.

If Max Weber were alive today, he'd have written a blog called "Western Buddist Cope, and the spirit of Capitalism".

>>412674
Only correct anon in this thread. Read the full Parable of the Madman, it makes more sense in context. It's not supposed to be a "good" thing, it's supposed to be a true but tragic thing, brought about by our own advancements in science and philosophy which "killed" God for man (i.e. made God an impossibility by demystifying the previously esoteric and mystical). So now we're left with the horrifying predicament of needing to conceptualize our own value systems and laws, with no deity and God to place our trust in and inform us of what is absolutely "good" and what is absolutely "bad". We have to figure it out by ourselves now, and that comes various implications to it.

I really like some of Nietzsche's philosophy, so I'll try to explain as best as I can.

When Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, he was really proclaiming the death of objective morals or the death of philosophy. He was essentially stating that whatever we consider to be "good" or "evil", they don't really exist as categories with any objective meeting. If something is "good" it doesn't have any cosmic advantage that guarantees its victory over whatever is evil. If you want to go even further, what we consider to be "good" or "evil" is entirely arbitrary (e.g. a father that murders a molester that assaulted his son. Whether one considers him good or evil is dependent entirely upon whether they hold to the notion that murder is always wrong or not.)

I'll say this about Nietzsche, the sum of his philosophy (if I may simplify it) seems to be that the advancement of one's own will is good. In short, what matters more is that you're doing something rather than nothing. When he warned that "something worse than Christianity is coming." I think he understood, quite presciently, that while a zealot could swallow his own morality or immorality by using a "God" in place of his own will, the Death of God doesn't mean Atheists will elevate their will in place of God, but rather that the Will to Power will atrophy, that without permission from an imagined, omnipotent, omnibenevolent diety, people will choose to do nothing over doing good or evil.

(sorry for the ramble, kinda drunk)

>>412704
comic is spoilers for twilight of idols lol

>>412698
>So now we're left with the horrifying predicament of needing to conceptualize our own value systems and laws
Unlike Christians, who received Truth from the unaltered word of God via the Bible (version 56.282). Lol.

>>412698
What would be Nietsches reply to conservatives that desire a "return" to this state of objective religious values and a belief in god?

>>412720
he'd be a chad and say that the state is the oldest lie of course and tell them that jews invented their religion to spite them.

>>412724
I don't mean "state" as in government, but in state of affairs etc.

It means that Mammon was victorious in dethroning God and sits now in Heaven, enjoying the worship and offerings of its acolytes.

>>412633
The means of production and material conditions of humanity at the dawn of the industrial revolution had finally grew beyond the need for religion to be a major part of the superstructure. He was right, the mass media had replaced the church as the main propagandist of cultural viewpoints for the masses.

>>412727
But ultimately God will take revenge because it’s His position and not Mammon’s.

>>412670
Are you even christian at first place?