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Nietzsche Death Of God

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construction is deconstructed. Since humanity has constructed God into what the individual wants God to be, one does not want to believe God has ever died in the first place. Thus Christianity is reduced to theism, which is further reduced to the deus ex machina of deism. The mechanics behind why many are resistant to think this way can be evidenced through the consequences of modernity. The different viewpoints of the “death” of God can be explored by traveling the same road as the philosophical debate of absolute truth versus relative truth. Modernist thinking generally adheres to an absolute truth, while postmodern thinking favors relative truth. Nietzsche, exhibiting an extremely anti-modernist mindset, meant for the death of God to be
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