What was the cause of gods death?

Question

................in the nietzche phrase of god is dead? ,

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Answer 1

Nietzsche believed that we were capable of being our own gods.  

(Wagner's Thus Spake Zarathustra sort of illustrates that "a-ha" moment.)

Once you accept that you are only limited by yourself, it is easy to say that god is pointless.

He's speaking of the Enlightenment and the lack of relevance god has anymore in the life of humans.

(next time, put this question in philosophy please.)

Answer 2

No one worshipping nor remembering them

Answer 3

The Babel Fish.

The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D."

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

- Doug Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy)

Answer 4

The phrase God is Dead is written in Nietzsche's "Parable of the Madman", which first appeared in "The g*y Science" and then much more expounded upon in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" first in order to explain it we need to examine its language. Here is an excerpt from the Parable of the Madman:

Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: "I seek God! I seek God!"---As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Has he got lost? asked one. Did he lose his way like a child? asked another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? emigrated?---Thus they yelled and laughed.

The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him---you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying, as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

The cause of God's death is our lack of belief in him. Scientific inquiry and philosophical skepticism has moved God away from the notion that he is the light of the world to the notion that he is just another fairy tale. Read the language closely, Nietzsche, who did not believe in God, was criticizing Atheists for killing God.

His next question is that of supreme importance: "What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually?" So now we have killed God, now what? Where are we going? What is the point of living now if we no longer have to obey God? Do we just tumble aimlessly now?

This is a build up to some of Nietzsche's most sublime points: Both God and Science are insufficient as guiding beacons for humanity. Science is exciting because it piques our spirit of discovery, but what happens when we have learned all of the science that there is to know? then what? Are we staring into the gaping maw of oblivion like a tiny boat lost in an infinite sea? Are we a bird who has built a golden cage around itself?

In order to survive, we must evolve, we must become creatures of passion, love, and drive. We must evolve to become the Ubermensch, men who desire not to worship God, but to become God. One who is neither a slave nor a slave driver, but transcendent of the system. That, is the point Nietzsche was building up to when he said that God was dead.