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?
- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882
He was correct in certain ways. His observation that the West killed God is certainly true. It continues to this day, if you think of the Holy Spirit being in shunned away from the masses. A brief in God, and particularly Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ is the glue that has held Western Civilization together since the time of Constantine in the 4th century.
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