pointless question. In the social sense, god is dead, because society has moved pass divine law as the arbiter of morality. In a physical sense, you'd first have to identify what you mean by god. Say you mean the Christian God, or I should say the more general Abrahamic God, you cannot kill Him. He has unlimited power over the Universe, no physical form, and does not require anything to sustain Himself. The unmoved Mover cannot be moved, no matter what. The only aspect of Him which was corporated and shared our weaknesses was killed and brought Himself back, so that's a no go. Let's say you mean a god like from mythologies and religions of pre-Christian europe and asia, they can sometimes be killed, but you don't get their power, their domain simply becomes unruly. Unless you have a means to become them or ascend their throne, you're screwing the world over. Even if you do that, you'll likely be slain by other gods offended you killed their relative, gods have solidarity. If we approach a pantheistic god to slay, or take the approach that the gods of pantheons reflect their domain rather than being entities which control their domain, then there are already people killing god or gods. Pan is burning, Poseidon chokes on plastic, and Hestia has no dwelling.
notice how their particular brand of religious mania was not a thing until rather recently. This is not to deny the religious fervor and often times bigotry which has existed, but that this particular form is an incomplete regression brought about as an arm of neoliberal politics, which feasts on the corpse of society's dead god.
"society has moved past divine laws" are you sure? I would say, at least in the US, the ostensibly secular corpus of laws embodies an awful lot of divine law elements, from the wrath towards the "guilty" to an appeal towards a transcendental (the constitution), really the apostles character of the founding fathers should not be dismissed, nor the sacrificial ritual the US is founded on, even the military is part of that new church, evangelizing or forcing transcendence on their enemies' bodies
That's a fair point, but that's not the ideology which is running everything. The weird regression of american society into an earlier form of morality and divine law is a tool of neoliberalism in my opinion, not just a lone phenomena. And neoliberalism is very much motivated by a dead god.
pointless question. In the social sense, god is dead, because society has moved pass divine law as the arbiter of morality. In a physical sense, you'd first have to identify what you mean by god. Say you mean the Christian God, or I should say the more general Abrahamic God, you cannot kill Him. He has unlimited power over the Universe, no physical form, and does not require anything to sustain Himself. The unmoved Mover cannot be moved, no matter what. The only aspect of Him which was corporated and shared our weaknesses was killed and brought Himself back, so that's a no go. Let's say you mean a god like from mythologies and religions of pre-Christian europe and asia, they can sometimes be killed, but you don't get their power, their domain simply becomes unruly. Unless you have a means to become them or ascend their throne, you're screwing the world over. Even if you do that, you'll likely be slain by other gods offended you killed their relative, gods have solidarity. If we approach a pantheistic god to slay, or take the approach that the gods of pantheons reflect their domain rather than being entities which control their domain, then there are already people killing god or gods. Pan is burning, Poseidon chokes on plastic, and Hestia has no dwelling.
Would someone please inform the Evangelicals?
notice how their particular brand of religious mania was not a thing until rather recently. This is not to deny the religious fervor and often times bigotry which has existed, but that this particular form is an incomplete regression brought about as an arm of neoliberal politics, which feasts on the corpse of society's dead god.
"society has moved past divine laws" are you sure? I would say, at least in the US, the ostensibly secular corpus of laws embodies an awful lot of divine law elements, from the wrath towards the "guilty" to an appeal towards a transcendental (the constitution), really the apostles character of the founding fathers should not be dismissed, nor the sacrificial ritual the US is founded on, even the military is part of that new church, evangelizing or forcing transcendence on their enemies' bodies
That's a fair point, but that's not the ideology which is running everything. The weird regression of american society into an earlier form of morality and divine law is a tool of neoliberalism in my opinion, not just a lone phenomena. And neoliberalism is very much motivated by a dead god.
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well said, could not have put it better.