is God Dead?

God is Dead. Really?

I was in the car, driving between appointments listening to Origin by Dan Brown. I really like Dan Brown's work, even if he tends to lean on the scientific notion that there is no God. He focuses on the tension between religion and science, and gives me things to ponder. His works are suspenseful and keep the reader (or in this case, listener) engaged. At this point in the story, Robert Langdon, the protagonist, is trying to unleash his friend's profound scientific discovery aborted by his untimely assassination at the release party. He is at his friend's home with the heroine of the story, discussing Nietzsche, and this quote comes up: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."

God is dead.
God remains dead.
​​And we have killed him.   
​ ​-Frederich Nietzsche, 1882

I thought, "Right. In the eyes of those who don't believe in God, He is dead. They have killed the concept of Him by denying His existence. That doesn't mean He doesn't exist." I wondered what the context of Nietzsche's statement was, so I looked it up. 

​The statement comes from a parable in his book The Gay Science, ​published in 1882, and reads like this:

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!"....

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