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"Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, "I seek God! I seek God!" As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...  Whither is God," he cried. "I shall tell you.  We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead.  And we have killed him..." La Gaya Scienza" (The Gay Science), is a book written by Friedrich Nietzsche first published in 1882.

 

These are the words of Friedrich Nietzsche the son of Carl Ludwig, a Lutheran pastor in Saxony Germany. Nietzsche’s writings offered grounds for the reprehensible Nazi ideology of a superior race. Nietzsche’s writings influenced Adolf Hitler as he lived out what Nietzsche had envisioned, trying to prove himself to be the Übermensch (Superman) and the precursor of the Master race.  Unfortunately this same ideology in a very mild manner still permeates the halls of our learning, political and sadly to say religious institutions.