The notion that God is dead has been disputed between proponents and opponents for centuries. One stalwart advocate of the belief that God is dead is Friedrich Nietzsche. Selections of Nietzsche’s Gay Science state, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?” Nietzsche asserted that secularism has
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An example of such is the desertion of I Corinthians 6:9-10, which states “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”. Evidence of such apostasy is the dramatic increase in fornication among American millennials, as 62% of their children are born out of wedlock. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “70% of gang members, high school dropouts, teen suicides, teen pregnancies, and teen substance abusers come from single mother homes.” (U.S. Single Parent Households - Safe_Harbor.pdf). Occurrences of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV are rising in America as well (HIV Among Youth | Age | HIV by Group | HIV/AIDS). Moreover, 62% of white, mainline Protestants in America now support gay marriage (Where Christian churches, other religions stand on gay marriage | Pew Research Center). These statistics raise questions such as, “How can God exist if their own followers do not believe or abide by its …show more content…
Nihilism is popular only in Europe and North America. Moreover, 63% of the world’s population is religious, while 11% are convinced atheists (Global Survey Finds 63% of World’s Population is Religious, While 11% Are “Convinced Atheists.). If atheism provided enough proof that God doesn’t exist, wouldn’t most people forsake their religion? It would appear that the world is becoming more agnostic or atheist, but that is not the case. In contrast, China, which has an atheistic government, ironically has a very large religious population (Backgrounder: Religion in China - Council on Foreign Relations.). To be a part of the Chinese Communist Party one must not be affiliated with any religion. The Chinese Communist Party has approximately 85.13 million members, which is only about 1/14 of their 1.4 billion population (China's Communist Party membership exceeds 85 million - People's Daily Online | Population of China 2015). Yet 65% of people in the Chinese government have admitted to participating in religious practices in the last year (Rising religious tide in China overwhelms atheist doctrine | Ahead of the Trend.). This would indicate that the majority of atheists in the Chinese government believe in God. How can God not exist when the majority of supposedly atheists in China practice religion? Consequently, the idea that atheism is on the rise worldwide is
An example of such is the desertion of I Corinthians 6:9-10, which states “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”. Evidence of such apostasy is the dramatic increase in fornication among American millennials, as 62% of their children are born out of wedlock. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “70% of gang members, high school dropouts, teen suicides, teen pregnancies, and teen substance abusers come from single mother homes.” (U.S. Single Parent Households - Safe_Harbor.pdf). Occurrences of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV are rising in America as well (HIV Among Youth | Age | HIV by Group | HIV/AIDS). Moreover, 62% of white, mainline Protestants in America now support gay marriage (Where Christian churches, other religions stand on gay marriage | Pew Research Center). These statistics raise questions such as, “How can God exist if their own followers do not believe or abide by its …show more content…
Nihilism is popular only in Europe and North America. Moreover, 63% of the world’s population is religious, while 11% are convinced atheists (Global Survey Finds 63% of World’s Population is Religious, While 11% Are “Convinced Atheists.). If atheism provided enough proof that God doesn’t exist, wouldn’t most people forsake their religion? It would appear that the world is becoming more agnostic or atheist, but that is not the case. In contrast, China, which has an atheistic government, ironically has a very large religious population (Backgrounder: Religion in China - Council on Foreign Relations.). To be a part of the Chinese Communist Party one must not be affiliated with any religion. The Chinese Communist Party has approximately 85.13 million members, which is only about 1/14 of their 1.4 billion population (China's Communist Party membership exceeds 85 million - People's Daily Online | Population of China 2015). Yet 65% of people in the Chinese government have admitted to participating in religious practices in the last year (Rising religious tide in China overwhelms atheist doctrine | Ahead of the Trend.). This would indicate that the majority of atheists in the Chinese government believe in God. How can God not exist when the majority of supposedly atheists in China practice religion? Consequently, the idea that atheism is on the rise worldwide is