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on Wokeism & What Scheler Got Right About Nietzsche’s Insight
“God is dead . . . And we have killed him.”
It is perhaps the most recognized, most polarizing quotation in modern philosophy, evoking energetic emotional responses at both ends of the faith binary. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote it just a few years before his descent into madness. It’s almost certainly the quotation from the controversial thinker most known by Christians. And though its meaning is arguably more complex than is typically asserted, for obvious reasons it has set the tone for a prickly relationship between the faithful and the provocative German philosopher.
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Alexander Riley is a senior fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and a member of the board of directors of the National Association of Scholars.
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