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That would be assuming there ever was a god.
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I haven't read Nietzsche for 5 years, so my recollection of the interpretation may be way off... As I recall by 'God is dead' Neitzsche was refering to his Uberman who is beyond good and evil - for the Uberman, God is dead, he doesn't need him because he has moved passed the notion and accepted science and reason above all else. He makes his own morals. It was a bit of attention seeking and about advocating a new positive nihilism, and throwing off the constraints imposed by the idea of God since he felt it weakened people. (It wasn't a statement of fact that God had lived or died, nor did he state with 100% certainty that God had never existed). In some senses - if my interpretation that God is no longer needed is actually what he did mean - there is truth in it.
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He did not mean God is dead in the literal sense. He meant that the need for organised religion was over because people started looking for science for answers and improvements in education meant that people started to think for themselves rather than following Chrisianity and inforcement of the law and a better structured nationalised legal system meant that the fear of God was no longer needed to control people.
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