“God is dead” is a quote from Nietzsche. I’d think about it this way: He wrote it for a creative writing project, and as context for that creative writing project, he was grappling with sadness and anger at that time. I believe that Nietzsche would say that God was important to him during key points of his life. He was afraid that humans would get evil.
It has never been appropriate for people to misinterpret and/or manipulate a philosopher’s words and concepts, especially in that philosopher’s absence. This has happened a lot with Nietzsche, to disturbing effect.
The concept of nihilism is not exactly a philosophy, but an ongoing conversation with despair. Despair actually became stylish in the 1990s, mellowed to a poignant patina of irony by the 2010s, and has been allowed to mutate horribly in the 2020s.
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