16th February 2020, 2:58 PM
"God is dead", like others have said, is from the German philosopher Nietzsche. It refers to the idea that the increase in scientific reasoning brought about by the age of enlightenment made it so that belief in God was no longer the default.
Here's how I interpret it: If you were to create a brand new society in the pre-enlightenment era that had absolutely no concept of God, eventually such a concept would be created by that society. Try the same thing in a post-enlightenment era, and the concept of God would not arise naturally as a matter of course.
Here's how I interpret it: If you were to create a brand new society in the pre-enlightenment era that had absolutely no concept of God, eventually such a concept would be created by that society. Try the same thing in a post-enlightenment era, and the concept of God would not arise naturally as a matter of course.