viapek on Nostr: You have misread Nietzsche (if you have read him at all) if you think him an atheist. ...

You have misread Nietzsche (if you have read him at all) if you think him an atheist. He argues that God/s are a constructions but not about the existence of metaphysical beings/realms, at least that I have encountered… but I have also only read a few of his works and… in English at that.

When he pronounced “God is dead” he meant “we killed him” not he does not exist nor that we do not need him.

Nietzsche battles with what that means and tries to map the void that is left and how we might move forward now that it exists…

I’m not sure why people blame philosophers for playing with ideas… Neitzsche diagnosed the problems pretty frikin well if you ask me… and maybe he gets so much grief because he described so well what would happen with the death of God.