The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him-you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its Sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do. we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the grave diggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too decompose .. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. "How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world - has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement. what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater -deed; and whoever is born after us-for the sake of this deed, he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."
Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they; too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke into pieces and went out. HI have come too early," he said then; "my time is not yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars and yet they have already done it themselves."
F. Nietzsche - The gay science
Nihilism, self destructive behaviour and self destructive entertainment are logic and even the most consistent responses before the nonsense of life. why to strive in anything if we are just a random product of chance, we are going to dissapear and there will not remain anything of our works and efforts? Our generation, with few exceptions, has been borned in the middle of the abyss. We have not received any religious education in the sense that we have not grown up with the idea of God´s existence. Even those tendencies that look religiousness with disdain and disrespect designating them as a resource for the cowards that dont dare to accept the anguishing reality of our condition in this world are alive; although i agree with those who say that he who has not sink in desperation and has not experienced that condition of being with no God becoming fully aware of existential void and from that abyss of desperation has turned to God, will not be able to fully experience God´s truth. Maybe this is one of the senses of mystical faith purifications.
This fact, not having been educated with the idea that God is, wether in a monotheist sense, christian jewish or muslim, wether in a more oriental sense, but that keeps the view of trascendence of life over phisical death, has meant the amputation of all spiritual conception of life wether in a social wether in an individual scope and has greatly influenced occident people psychology and i believe is the root cause of many psychiatric "disorders" that are treated with material remedies (pills) or remedies of psychological nature (therapies based in talking) that, although can palliate some symptoms, can not solve the root of the disorder because this disorders have a spiritual nature root cause. I am not a psychologist but from my own experience i think that prayer, spending some time talking with God telling Him our fears and worries and asking for help with the hope that He is listening to us, would be the best remedie for many of this cases.
in a way i think this fact, this modern age spiritual darkness, was necesary for unlinking God conception from human church institution (whose high ranks have commited many abuses althought, in general terms, i consider its influence in history in a very positive way even if only for having transmitted Christ message, this without counting with the millions of souls, in whom i think that true church consitsts, that have sacrified their lifes doing good in it) in people psychology and leading them to the true knwoledge of God in Jesus Christ. I mean that i consider human church institution as a valid tool, and even necessary for most of us, for cultivating our relation with God.. but we can not circumscribe to or subtitute God for human Church institution, nor reduce Gods relation with man to their relation with church, nor reduce true spiritual life, that consists in true knowledge of Christ in Spirit and in Truth and in a personal relation with Him to fullfilling some commandments or persuading oneselfe that one believes some dogmas... And the most important, i think that it was necessary or that in a way God is taking advantage of it, in order that man verify that freedom is not in living without God and that God does not enslave us, but that God is our freedom.. in order to destroy all misconceptions and prejuices that had formed around "God" concept and rediscovering God.
Nietzsche saw this modern age condition and said "God is dead, we have killed God"; and facing this faithless abyss with no foundation and with no reference in which we are found after having denied God and facing nihilism he offered "Superman" conception, the man that builds his own values making himself God of himself. The man that positions himself as the center, foundation and lay of everything in contrast with the slave christian mind that lived in an insane fear of God state obeying precepts, not because he believed in them, but becaouse he feared God´s punishment. Paradoxically, this "superman" concept well could have been inspired in JesusChrist, to whom Nietzsche admired and of whom he said that was the only true christian in history.
Christ is the paradigm of the Christians and Christians, the ones who bear the Holy Christ Spirit, are called to reproduce his Image. They are called to be free, to be Christs, to walk united to Him the same way He walked united to His own divinity. They are called to follow Christ steps to the Cross and from there to God´s Holy Throne Ap3:21. Christ has not called us to that fearing God neurotic insane state. He has not called us for making us slaves of a God that imposes on us some external values in which we do not believe. He came to deliver us from everything that we are not and to give us anew our own true identity, the true knowledge of ourselfes, our true Names. God is the fountain of our being and our current condition in this world is being separated from God. Christ, God-Men, has covered this separation abyss in order to reunite us to Himself and that we are able to become ourselfes and not a shadow of whom we really are separated from the spring of our being, God. Christ has called us to make us Kings and free, not slaves. The Christian that walks in the Spirit does not obey external precepts in which he does not believe moved by fear but, united with God, he receives his being from God and this Being that he receives is his own law. This is what Saint John of the cross refers to when in his "ascent of mount Carmel" , describing the end of the way, the highest mystical state of union with God writes: "from now on there is no path because for the fairmen there is no law. The fair man himself is law to himself". This is the freedom of the Sons of God, no more nor less than being whom they really are for being united to the spring of their beings, God.
this is completly oposite to Nietzsche´s "superman" conception in that Nietzsche´s "superman" creates himself, is the fountain of himself, is his own God while Christians receive their being from God but similar in that both, Christians and Nietzsche´s "Superman" are law to themselfes. The difference is that while Nietzsche´s "superman" is his own fountain, Christian receives everything from God.
yet, this path of knowing God and ourselfes involves the death in us of everything that we are not, of our false own egoistic selfe oposite to God, of whom Christ came to deliver us, of whom spring all our egoistic sinful human inclinations contrary to God: pride, covetousness, envy, wickedness... that slave us and deppart us from God mking us unhappy. In this sense, Christian life is a permanent struggle against oneselfe, against our own false self until he has defeated Gods enemys in himself and Christ has dethroned antichrist, the false egoisitc self, the superman "that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." 2 tes 2:4, "hath put all enemies (within ourselfes) under his feet 1 cor 15:25 and reigns over all the land of our beings. this is the inner victory that after shall be manifested in the exterior. the all creation redemption. Christ never promised an easy life but a plain life full of sense.
In conclusion, in this life void of sense in which church has lost its influence and youths roam with no course looking for answers where there are not and satiate their thirst where there is no water, i urge people to approach Christ, the only one that can provide plain sense to their existences and drive them to the true happiness and true freedom. To all the people that drag heavy remorse weights, tell you that Jesus is not going to hold anything against us. He desires you to approach Him in order to free you from your faults and of every weight more than yourselfes.. An to everyone who suffers, that after all are all of us, because it is not possible to be happy without God, because we are made for Him and our natural condition is being united with Him, tell them that Jesus Christ is, that He is there and that he helps the ones that ask Him his help. That many of us have experienced His help, he has delivered from very deep abysses and has given a sense to our lifes. Tell them that we are not left from the hand of God, that we are not a product of chaos, that there is a meaning for every tear.. and encourage you all to talk with Christ and tell Him your worries, ask Him for his help or tell him whatever springs from your hearts... He is there and He listens to you.
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Matthew 15:13
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