Nietzsche Madman

For most people, God is at the center of their lives. They think about him when they do things they shouldn’t, they look for forgiveness in him and for they even ask him to give them happiness. So when most people hear the phrase “God is dead” they laugh it off and continue with their day. But this gave birth to a new worldview in which God is not at the center. Friedrich Nietzsche is the one who coined the phrase in his text “The Madman”. This worldview describes that once we realize that God is dead and that we are the ones who killed him, we will pave the way for a better future for the generations to come. When the madman first enters the marketplace he is ironically yelling how he is looking for God and the people there find him funny.
He then goes to say “Whiter is God? I will tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are his murderers” (181). This comes to say that the way we used to think where God was the law-giver is not valid anymore. We have created new sets of rules and codes that no longer correspond with those originally ‘create’ by God’s word and by doing this we have killed him. But people are still holding on to this idea of God, mostly because it gives meaning to the inexplicable. The madman then goes on asking a lot of questions about what are we to do now that we have “unchained this earth from its sun” (181). He is asking us how are we to continue living without this higher power that gave us our morals, this ideal source of comfort that came from Him, our sun? The madman want us to realize that killing God is the best thing that could have happened to us. He then goes on to say