B. God is Dead We have Killed him – you and I!” (From The Joyful Wisdom) Nietzsche he asserts that we have lowered the noble concept of God to mediocrity and have thereby slain the idea of God. As regards Nietzsche’s atheism, “It is a mater of course with me, from instinct, I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy upon us thinkers—at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us; you shall not think.” (Twilight of the Idols, ch. I, 1)
