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"God is dead" is a famous exclamation by Friedrich Nietzsche, from more than a century ago, describing how the idea and role of god is lost with the advances of science. He saw the emerging crisis and void that'd be left by the departing god on our moral considerations and later on his personage declared "We have killed Him". The death of god is a way of saying that we do not recognise order in the universe any more, that life no longer has any meaning and purpose. Nietzsche believed that the majority of people did not recognize (or refused to acknowledge) this death of God out of the deepest-seated fear. Therefore, when the death did begin to become widely acknowledged, people would despair and nihilism would become rampant. I can see us becoming more and more nihilistic, in a meaningless life, but how do we deal with our descendants? There are an awful lot of people out there that rely on their faith in God to keep on living. If we kill their faith, would they still have the desire to live and bear the hardships of life when they start opening their eyes and realise that we are completely alone in this meaningless, bleak, cold and irrelevant nonsense?
A century ago? No, it is the first chapter of the Scripture. While God is absent, people ate too much from the Tree of Science to think that they no longer need God, that they choose to ignore Word of God, or even think that they are God. This way, they will die their second death.
Science runs in parallel with spirituality, just like the Tree of Knowledge coexisted with the Tree of Life. Your inclination towards science till giving up God was mentioned long time ago. And bingo, another prophecy just has come true.
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