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Religion
March 21, 2025
Is God Dead?
By TY B. KERLEY WAURIKA CHURCH OF CHRIST

On Good Friday 1966, Time issued their magazine with the cover emblazoned with three words: Is God Dead? What followed was a firestorm; Christians once again felt threatened by an ever more hostile culture, atheists and free-thinkers eagerly awaiting what they just knew would this time be the final victory. But both the question itself and what played out was really nothing new. To be sure the cover garnered much attention and sparked much debate, but it was really nothing new under the sun. The same question had been raised for centuries, millennia even. The truth is, the question of the death of God was first raised by Lucifer when Eve, in some sense, agreed with him. It seems to me there truly is nothing new under the sun, not even a question about the death of God. Sure enough, thousands of years later, Fredrich Nietzsche’s Madman asks the same ageless question: “Do we not hear the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? What are these churches now if they are not the tombs and monuments of God?” These powerful and timeless questions reside deep in almost all men’s souls: questions that demand answers, questions that deserve answers. And that is precisely the intent of this weekly column, to look at the evidence available to help answer the timeless question: Is God dead? Whether you are a Christian, a seeker or a nonbeliever, I welcome you to join us each week to consider the evidence for yourself.

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