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Nietzsche was not a cut and dry figure. He was, like most European philosophers, very complex and had a lot of points in one - cognitive dissonance even.
He came from a theologian background and a very religious family. When he said that "God is dead" he meant what the Christian God represented. It was not necessarily a statement for or against God, it was a statement against the Hellenistic rule of the poor people who had taken the ruling power from the strong. They took the power by making it morally and politically good to be poor, understanding and temperate. The hero figures were no longer Odysseus or other strong men who "fought the dragon" and took home the spoils, they were poor people helping other poor people.
Nietzsche felt that poor people with other moral and ethical standpoints was against nature and therefore bad for humanity. He called for a complete reevaluation of what the Christian religion teaches people. He wanted us to go back to brutes who fought for what we had, and looked up to people who were as close to the natural person as possible. In this way he was very closely connected to the Ancient Greek world-view, which of course is the world view that created our civilization.
So in conclusion, Nietzsche wasn't commenting on the status of Gods mortality, but the political and sociological implications of Christian teachings of humility and understanding. He felt that it wasn't natural and would ultimately lead to our demise as a species.
If you want to know more, I can highly recommend his theory on the "will to power", which says that all humans are motivated by their own desire to have as much power as possible.
He came from a theologian background and a very religious family. When he said that "God is dead" he meant what the Christian God represented. It was not necessarily a statement for or against God, it was a statement against the Hellenistic rule of the poor people who had taken the ruling power from the strong. They took the power by making it morally and politically good to be poor, understanding and temperate. The hero figures were no longer Odysseus or other strong men who "fought the dragon" and took home the spoils, they were poor people helping other poor people.
Nietzsche felt that poor people with other moral and ethical standpoints was against nature and therefore bad for humanity. He called for a complete reevaluation of what the Christian religion teaches people. He wanted us to go back to brutes who fought for what we had, and looked up to people who were as close to the natural person as possible. In this way he was very closely connected to the Ancient Greek world-view, which of course is the world view that created our civilization.
So in conclusion, Nietzsche wasn't commenting on the status of Gods mortality, but the political and sociological implications of Christian teachings of humility and understanding. He felt that it wasn't natural and would ultimately lead to our demise as a species.
If you want to know more, I can highly recommend his theory on the "will to power", which says that all humans are motivated by their own desire to have as much power as possible.