Originally Posted by
anoneemuse
so in the end he was not an atheist . he just killed the christian version of god
He didn't kill anything. He just pointed out that organised religion was in decline. Churches no longer had the hold over their subscribers that they once did.
It was the late 19th Century mindset and the advance of popular scientific thought that killed God (obviously that's a metaphor), Nietzsche just published it, albeit somewhat sensationally. He underlined the cyclical nature of belief and morality and called for a deconstruction of these, like.
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