On the Death of God, Cultural Melancholia, and Scientific Dogmatism

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“Where is god?” asks Nietzsche’s madman in The Gay Science (YEAR). “I will tell you. We have killed him — you and I. All of us are his murderers.” The madman’s audience ridicules him for being foolish, and he admonishes them for their ignorance. “Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed…