Hear ye not the bells resounding?It's cited as coming from a book titled Religion and Philosophy in Germany, which reprinted a translation of an article originally appearing in 1833.
Kneel down. They are bringing the
Sacraments to a dying God!
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Notebook
After bumming around Florida and my home town for a couple of weeks, I'm back in Madison doing library research for a paper on the Argument from Evil, which I'll be submitting to an undergraduate philosophy conference. I came across a bit that has little relevance to my paper, but is interesting to note, so I've decided to start a notebook category on this blog for such material. In this case, it's an early "God is Dead" quote from one H. Heine, found in an old issue of the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion:
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Hey Chris... kinda OT. Have you read "The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality" by André Comte-Sponville yet? I'm really digging it, but it's more your kind of book than mine. I'd like to get your impressions of it, mostly because nobody else I know has read it or discussed it online, and you know your shit in this atheist philosophy area.
I'm going to be writing it up for my Blog soon. I'm halfway through the book... it's a breezy-light 200 pages.
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