What did Nietzsche mean when he wrote "God is Dead?"

The entire underlying framework of Western civilization was collapsing, because certainty in an absolute was no longer possible, as discovered by relentless searching for the absolute itself.

Even more than that, the very notion of God Himself had become a disturbed relative mess since the reformation

HAHA YES! another non-sheeple in this sea of IDIOTS who don’t worship God aka not real fairy tale (LOL BURN). Now if only I could find a virginal asian m’lady who holds these beliefs and would enjoy spending saturday nights watching Rick and Morty and The Big Bang Theory (shows for intellectuals such as myself)

That spiritualism has died. Materialism, you know. The world used to be more magical.

Even materialism is dying, they're trying to strip the very world itself from us

Sadly, yes, but who's they?

The Jews

wtf i love jesus now

Oh, but that's ridiculous user.

Christianity no longer commands society-wide cultural allegiance as a framework grounding ethical commitments, and thus, a common basis for collective life that was supposed to have been immutable and invulnerable has turned out to be not only less stable than we assumed, but incomprehensibly mortal—and in fact, already lost. The response called for by such a turn of events is mourning and deep disorientation.

>this is your brain on ressentiment

It says a lot about the state of Veeky Forums when I doubt whether or not this is bait

Every historic period hold beliefs as certainties. This certainties cannot be considered knowledge, because they are found outside knowledge since they cannot be proved or disproved, rather they conform the mechanism by which people think, and the axioms of epistemological discourse.

This base knowledge is not an object of doubt, since it is the reason they very meaningful epistemological discourse is possible at all. It is also, virtually invisible, and one can experience this invisibility by reading ancient or medieval texts and seeing how many of the logical/philosophical assumptions and methods of inference aren't obvious at all for us. We could say they are in a different episteme.

Christianity provided a base knowledge for more than a millenium, and its influence is still great to this day. We do not have in mind the facts of christianity that one might very well doubt, but the christian way of thinking that is pervaded by a logical highly dubious by modern standars.

Now, "God" is the main figure of Christianity. Regardless of a person being a believer or not, the being "God" encompased altogether what it means to think life in a christian way, and people thought the world under this paradigm even if they had not hear the word God in their lives - the very mechanism by which people thought was highly influence by christianity.

The death of god is not only the doubt raised against the figure of a god, which can in fact be found throughout history from the presocratics..But the very mechanism by which people think, the conditions of thinking, the certainties, crumble now in light of modern scientific thought. This modern scientific thought is not considering facts either, but a new critical that operates under rules different than former philosophical and scientific thought - a person will indeed see a very different science in the works of Linnaeus and Goethe than in the work of a Heisenberg for example, and their difference is one of paradigm.

The problem that God is Dead posits, is how new thinking can overcome the problems of the past. Morality for example, was fairly easy thought before - even if people could disagree on the facts, discourse was meaningul. Now, the new paradigm has overcome the old one and gave everyone a better (materialistic) life, but morality has become a new kind of problem, since it is not something on which there can even be scientific disagreements, it is all in all scientifically meaningless.

Thus, the death of god has brought a new era than seems to have improved everyones lives, but it has rendered blocks of discourse meaningless.

Pretty much this, you asinine nincompoops.

What is this propaganda campaign trying to associate atheism with geeks?

why don't you?

Thank you.

He meant that Christianity is for retards and atheism is for even bigger retards and god weeps at such retards and tries to an hero every day but can't because he's the god and he just fucking resurrects

I think he meant that he failed divinity school and felt like a failure because of it.

There is no God, and Marry is His mother.

Reminder that liberals are christians or ''judeo-christians'' like they say, and they hate themselves for this

It is but its simpler to deal with than reality

These are the best and most accurate answers, especially the last.
One important aspect of the death of God is that, regardless of his existence, the influence of God has diminished. In the beginning of the chapter in which the Madman declares the death of God, N speaks of Buddah living in a cave and dying, but after his death, his followers came an worshiped at his shadow. Anyone who believes in God (the Abrahamic one, particularly mainstream Christianity (Catholic, Anglician, Lutheran)) does so without the conviction of the past. One rarely, in earnst, says to their children do not do X for X disappoints God. The Western World no longer has the divine as the bed rock of its arguement, or an overall agreed point of assumption. It deals less with the fact of atheism insofar as it really deals with the fact one cannot be killed or incarcerated for atheism.

Without such a lodestar, N says in the section with Madman that 'must we become gods to be worthy of such an act?'. Herein lies tastes of the ubermensch, for the ubermensch creates and promulgates his own value system (N thought the best example was Goethe). God used to be the one who had a system which he had inflicted on others, but his influenced has diminished. The interest question then becomes, who holds the value-making power in a post-God world?

The whole quote is: "God is dead and we killed him".
I don't think it's so hard to understand when you know it in full.