'God is dead'

The advent of science,philosophy and politics could have marked the death of God,according to Nietzsche.As a die hard christian,my emotions were left in mock despair on the realisation that,God had been pronounced dead by a modernist philosopher.I initially found the assertion baseless,since there is no empirical evidence that,the all mighty is nomore.Therefore i decided to investigate.

Nietsche appear to have used a phantom character in his book,The Gay Science, to emphasise,the infamous statement.I also noted that,at the time Nietzsche wrote his works in the later half of the nineteenth century,the shared belief of God was waning.I suppose the overriding fact,was that Charles Darwin and his insghtful writing on evolution brought a new dimension on how people perceived God.Where God once stood alone,as a centre of influence,meaning and eternal life - a plethora of voices were now being heard and God was now being pushed to the peripheries by the society.

The Darwin doctrines,and an assortment of human science created a crisis of faith and culture.In essence,God was now dead in the modern man's head.Nietsche observed that the death of God would lead to nihilism,where morality does not exist.In other words because,man would have found solace in philosophy and science,there would be no need to conform to the norms of the society - because there is no fear for God.Religion of course,is blamed for fostering a slave mentality.In doing so people would never revolt for their rights in fear of God.

So i guess when Nietsche said,'God is dead',he didn't mean it as one might think.