From: "Wayne A. King" <kingwa-AT-a.crl.com>
Subject: Re: god (proofread)
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 18:07:36 -0500


Tristich-AT-aol.com wrote:

> I wonder, though, how Wayne can say it's absurd to
>think Nietzsche believed that God never existed.

I listed the reasons in the original post, Fritz.

>Perhaps Wayne meant to say
>that it's wrong, even "absurd," to suppose that Nietzsche never believed in
>God.

You can't be serious?  Wasn't it obvious my remark
applied to N's youth, the period when he believed in God,
the period before he became an atheist?  That's what I
meant.  Before he became an atheist, N believed
in God.  Ok?

>I think Nietzsche was observing a modern fact of life that
>people don't believe anymore in the God of their fathers, and this fact, if
>there has to be one, is the central fact conveyed by the words, "God is
dead."


The overwhelming majority of people believed in God in the 1880's,
as they still do today. N was writing for only those that had ears to
hear him.

Best regards from Hoot Owl Hollow, Georgia
Wayne A. King




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