Science versus religion from a Friedrich Nietzche perspective "God is dead"
Date Submitted: 04/06/2003 16:19:27
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 6 pages (1570 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 6 pages (1570 words)
In This Corner, Weighing In At 2000 Years of Misinformation, Religion!
In the beginning, God created the world. At least, that is what the majority of society has been taught since birth. Today, with the aid of science, however, many are beginning to question this belief. Friedrich Nietzsche quotes in The Gay Science that "Gods decompose. God is dead. And we have killed him". (section 125) Perhaps science is what "killed God", and man invented science. The …
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…has replaced, and in essence, killed God, not man's sins. Now that God is truly dead, man can begin to reach true enlightenment, rather than just believe ancient stories written to make humans feel secure and significant. Though rejecting organized religion is unacceptable in society, due to traditions that began long before anyone living on Earth was born, only when society rejects it will society come to what is true rather that what is false.
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