“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?” —Friedrich Nietzsche (Gay Science125) One morning i...
Chapter 1 God is dead and man is free... for what? Responsibility belongs to someone who has the freedom to act. Either God can exist or freedom, both cannot exist together. That is the basic implication of Friedrich Nietzsche's statement, "God is dead, therefore man is free." ON ...
The disenchantment of the modern world is a common topic of Neopagan authors. The phrase “disenchantment of the world”, coined byWeber, derives fromFriedrich Schiller, who wrote aboutdie Entgotterung der Natur,the “de-godding of nature.” Neopagan myth and ritual is supposed to...