God’s Funeral
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God’s Funeral

How Monotheists Objectify Nature by Glorifying God

The telltale continuum between prehistoric pantheism and civilized monotheism

God is supposed to be a person who lives on an ethereal plane outside space and time. According to theistic religions, this person chose to create the whole universe and “he” did so to magnify his glory. God intervenes in nature when he chooses…

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Nietzsche said that God is dead. Here’s the philosophical eulogy, as we gather around the digital campfire, in modern angst, wondering what comes after we outgrow our stale personifications of nature.

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