[5] German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche lamented in his fictional account of a madman running about town declaring God is dead, was moved to write the above in that narrative. Nietzsche's story was to demonstrate the new movement of atheism spreading through intellectual circles during the late nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries, but which never really found its roots in society as a whole. This idea, however, of the death of the God, did not die: A following of theologians…
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