Friday, September 29, 2006

the reason for rthis entry is an explanation for the last entry .... actually when I was 17 the very first quote in the of Nietzsche cought my attention which was "God is dead" .... it stimulated many things in my mind which were what does he mean by god and what does he mean by his death? ..... but i don't want to discuss who is god to Nietzsche but to all of us
to many of us he turned to be the stick ...... sometimes the candy ... heaven and hell ... all their concern ..... now god is dead .... heaven and hell are the gods ... so we can come out with an idea of two god ... (God is back as two) .... who wins more souls???? ..... then we can modify to a god and a devil ..... doens't it go like that???? imagine it with all my respect ( i am actually a believer and don't misinterpret) as Chris De Burgh said the lord and the devil started playing poker and the bet starts upon the souls of the dead .... that's so unfair ... we are only a part of trhe game and the powers competing are god and the co-god (devil) ....
the other form is god turns to be the dead man who left us behind after he created all of that ..... (bullshit)
god is a dead idea .... no theoretical existance (AB theory is assume then god is a hypothesis) (bullshit volume II)
for theists it's the unknown power that made all of that ... the divine enrgy which put the spirit in man and represents absolute justice .... (the idea i respect the most)
in buddhism it's an atheistic religion where they believe in transmigration until reaching the nirvana no heaven no hell just the karmic shape of a man depending on his deeds in the end he reaches the nirvana (not bad to me but if classified as a myth)
God is subject to relativism as well young men

"God is dead" cried Nietzsche, "and do we not roam in the endless nothingness?" .Such atheistic existentialist philosophers as Nietzche despaired even of the search of God.... actually Nietzsche was not the only one .... but God was between myth and reallity to many ..... Philosopher Kant and theologian Ritschl denied that one could have a theoretical knowledge of the being of God....Since God was not empirically verifiable, the biblical world view was said to be mythological and unacceptable to the modern mind ..... many viewed the death of God ... some were believing in it and some are not .... but it was inevitable where masses of people were oriented to atheism because of living in a world of absolute materialism ....
But the idea of God's death began to have special prominence in 1957 when Gabriel Vahanian published a book entitled God is Dead. Vahanian did not offer a systematic expression of death of God theology. Instead, he analyzed those historical elements that contributed to the masses of people accepting atheism not so much as a theory but as a way of life. Vahanian himself did not believe that God was dead. But he urged that there be a form of Christianity that would recognize the contemporary loss of God and exert its influence through what was left. Other proponents of the death of God had the same assessment of God's status in contemporary culture, but were to draw different conclusions.
Thomas J J Altizer believed that God had actually died .... Altizer claims the church tried to give God life again and put him back in heaven by its doctrines of resurrection and ascension. But now the traditional doctrines about God and Christ must be repudiated because man has discovered after nineteen centuries that God does not exist. Christians must even now will the death of God by which the transcendent becomes immanent.
For William Hamilton the death of God describes the event many have experienced over the last two hundred years. They no longer accept the reality of God or the meaningfulness of language about him. Nontheistic explanations have been substituted for theistic ones. This trend is irreversible, and everyone must come to terms with the historical - cultural - death of God. God's death must be affirmed and the secular world embraced as normative intellectually and good ethically. (sounds nice)
(death of God theology)
God remained between Myth and reallity for years .... God is not dead to me .... god is out of the whole play gentle theologians .... being is a human ..... human is no god unless he has supernatural powers .... sometimes people misinterpret powers they lack as spuernatural ones turning flesh into gods ..... still depending on what is supernatural to you .... and still God is out of the play