ArnoldRimmer said:
richardhutnik said:
I brought up Nietzsche and the other post here, to go into what is actually discussed in killing God, and the fallout of that belief. It was not meant as a cheerleading exercise, but if you look further, you see the absurdity of the concept. And witrh Nietzsche you see fully what happens when you decide to try to kill God, in that you throw off morality and a sense of right and wrong. You have men have to come up with their own rules, and standards, and then find that it ends up being very limiting, because this practice ends up being one of bending the world to one's own benefit, rather than something that aspires to make people better, or more restrained and so on.
Chesterton goes into this also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=Xh1ToGbVZOI
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I guess I really misinterpreted your earlier postings.
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I just posted it because it fit into the discussion. What I did not explain is why I posted or how it lent into the discussion. The main thing is this goes back decades even, and over a century at this point. It is not new.
There is an irony here. If you end up going, "Kill God because of the EVIL!" then you go into God existing, which opens up a whole can of worms. If you then go you don't mean it, then who do people want to kill? Do we kill the artists who created the God concept? Do we kill ourselves?
