Nietzsche’s atheism was not a denial of God, but a methodological tool he used to free himself from the guilt caused by the Christian interpretation of God. He did not mean so much that God was dead, but that we are alive and on our own as human beings.
For this is Nietzsche’s work in a nutshell: the retrieval of humanity and of one’s personal divinity by denying categories like the “sacred,” the “supernatural,” and even the “natural,” at times, until finally he had to remove God to get at divinity. Because sometimes god gets in the way of God.
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Words: Jim Kast-Keat
Image: Jim Kast-Keat
Music: Gillicuddy
