Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 11:25:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Manuel Vargas <mrvargas-AT-ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: Timetable of death of God



On Wed, 8 Feb 1995, scott berger wrote:

> 
> Didn't Nietzsche predict that God/Christianity would be dead within two 
> hundered years?  It's at the halfway point now.  It looks as if it is 
> happening right on schedule.  
> -Berger
> 

What makes you think so? Christianity's influence has waned, but I'd 
hesitate to say that it will be "dead" in another hundred years. More 
recently it would appear that God and Christianity seems to be on the 
rise both in terms of number of adherents/believers, its influence on 
mass culture and politics (e.g. The Christian Right) at least in the 
United States. Depending on how one construes the "death of God," I'd be 
inclined to say that Nietzsche overestimated God's death. The problem 
with gods is that they are very hard for mortals to kill . . . 

And so I ask, what do you take the death of God to mean? What would it 
take for Christianity/God to be dead? 


--- M. Vargas

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