Nietzsche's View On The Existence Of God

Friedrich Nietzsche had a definite stand on the existence of God. He strongly believed and propagated that God was dead. The “death of God” often came up in several of Nietzsche’s philosophical contributions. It was often the backdrop which he used for describing human tendencies and carving pathways for human nature. “The best passage on God’s death is offered by Nietzsche in The Gay Science in section 125, entitled “The Madman”. There Nietzsche describes a man who enters the town market or bazaar and cries out loudly, “I seek God! I seek God!” He encounters a group of mocking atheists, who laugh at him until the Madman tells of God’s death. He proclaims: “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves,
But those same people keep using God’s name and his pseudo existence for their personal benefits. In the absence of such a divine figure, Nietzsche claimed that scope for nihilism exists. A nihilistic vacuum was left by the “death of God” and appropriate measures have to be taken to ensure that this vacuum is appropriately tapped and utilized. The best approach, according to him, is to abolish Christian beliefs and propaganda.
Nietzsche destroyed metaphysics and the traditions of Christianity. He was a philosopher of culture. He called himself the anti-Christ who would go beyond Christianity by usurping the name of Jesus Christ in the western world. He wanted to revive a different cultural orientation by confronting the traits of every person’s life. He criticized morality as well. Nietzsche believed that humans are animals and therefore should not be expected to construct moral values. Their judgment and values should come from the nature
There is a similarity between Nietzsche and Machiavelli in the notion that they both highlight the need for self’s satisfaction. Nietzsche promotes the idea of acquiring more to reach the full potential as human beings. The warrior would want capitalism because it will always allow him to have more. Nietzsche would, thus, be pro-modernity along with Smith and Machiavelli, Deer and Marx would be against it. Nietzsche also sees in-authenticity as an innate nature. Going by Nietzsche’s description, money could be seen as a symbol of power, inequality and alienation. Nietzsche’s warrior would therefore want money if it helps attain his respective higher status. Nietzsche sees Christianity as the propaganda of the priests to manipulate the slaves and conscience as a self-inflicted pain. People become religious to stop others from attaining their highest