The Death of God

From Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Zarathustra proclaims the death of God as both a cultural diagnosis and the precondition for the Overman, freeing humanity to create new values.
Prologue, Section 2

The saint in the forest has not heard that God is dead; Zarathustra marvels at this.

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Part II, 'In the Happy Isles'

'God is a conjecture'; argument that gods could not endure and that creation requires their absence.

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Part IV, 'Retired from Service'

The old pope confirms God died of pity for man.

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