The Parable Of Madman

Have you heard about the transfer student, who seems like he has a screw or two lose up there? I was thinking about him. He doesn’t believe there is any god. The other day, when asked about what god he believed in, he asked if anyone had seen god and if not, then why do we believe in him. He says that if there was any god, benevolent, wouldn’t he come down before a single drop of blood is shed in his name and, if it stops bloodshed, would say, he isn’t the true god and whatever that would make the murderers want to not kill. If the god was all powerful he would cripple the murderers before they get to the innocent people to kill in his name. If he is omnipresent he would see the atrocities that his creations are going through and help them. The truth is this world has always been, simultaneously, a marketplace and graveyard where we sell our souls, bury them every day in graves that we dig ourselves…. and also exhume it. And there is no god, even if there had been one at any point of time, he is dead. And it is us that we have killed God. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

What was the greatest sin that killed the god? And what was the greatest dream that blinds us to see what comes after the darkest hour-dawn, what is beyond horizon, we can’t see.  The festivals that we celebrate are because we want to cast out our own fears and guilt. What will happen when you are to pray and know that there is no god to answer them? That why is why we still pray to him and keep believing in him?

All were laughing at him then because they thought of him as atheist and that was a matter of laughter for them as they thought of themselves as believing in god. It was then that he felt silent threw his books and walked away. I didn’t knew why that happen then but now that I think of it again and again, it came to me that he had realized something. The news haven’t reached those around him that were laughing. The god was really dead. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves." 

The original Nietzsche work:

http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/friedrich_nietzsche_quotes.html