"...[I]t is easy to see that the moral sense has been bred out of certain sections of the population, like the wings have been bred off certain chickens to produce more white meat on them. This is a generation of wingless chickens, which I suppose is what Nietzsche meant when he said God was dead."
Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being, pg. 90
"[Neitzsche] saw God not as as an invention but as a casualty, and his demise as in some important sense an historical event, which would have dramatic consequences. He wrote in 1886: 'The greatest belief in recent times - that "God is Dead", that the belief in the Christian God in no longer tenable - is beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe.' Among the advanced races, the decline and ultimately the collapse of the religious impulse would leave a huge vacuum. The history of modern times is in great part the history of how that vacuum has been filled."
Paul Johnson, Modern Times, pg. 48
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