What Is Nietzsche's Claim On God Being Dead

Born in Prussia, Friedrich Nietzsche grew up to be one of the most influential, controversial, interesting and intriguing philosophers of our modern time, with bold statements such as “God is dead and we killed Him,” that still resonate in society today. His work Zarathustra is best known for his controversial teaching of the Übermensch (superman or "overman"), and through this concept humanity would be able to emerge from the shadow of the dead God and take their rightful place as leaders of this society. This teaching mainly conveys the promise of a life predicated on the love of one’s self, the love of the body, and an aspiration to noble values, a continuation of a theme set by the philosophers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. In this paper I will provide a Christian critique Friedrich Nietzsche’s claim on “God being dead,” his slave morality concept, and his idea of eternal recurrence, that are all part of

These holy men and women achieve a union with God that is so powerful that they become distinct from this world just like He is, but not separated just like He is not as well. They experience and help us partake of events that cannot be defined or described, experiences that are completely alien to our human understanding. Something that Nietzsche would describe as beyond that psychological and physiological understanding. He would also say that it is a state of mind that not everyone can reach, but a state that everyone should strive for, which is exactly what holiness is to Christians, but of course that is not what he meant. It is something that cannot be comprehended because it is something that is not necessarily achieved but something granted and given by