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Come discuss 30 Aphorisms on God is Dead by Nietzsche:
https://www.denverphilosophos.com/Nietzsche-5-Major-Ideas/0kxqsayr4vgv5hth46032ape3jilo5

Read a Selection below:

  1. (GS§108) New struggles.— After Buddha died, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave—a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead—but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will still be shown.—And we!—We still have to vanquish his shadow, too!

  2. (BG&E§168) Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated—into a vice.

  3. (GS§147) Question and answer.— What is it that savage tribes today accept first of all from Europeans? Liquor and Christianity, the two European narcotics. And of what do they perish most quickly? Of the European narcotics.

  4. (D§76) Christianity has succeeded in transforming Eros and Aphrodite—great powers capable of idealization—into diabolical kobolds and phantoms.

  5. (WIOTTA§4) I know no higher symbolism than this Greek symbolism of the Dionysian festivals. Here the most profound instinct of life, that directed toward the future of life, the eternity of life, is experienced religiously—and the way to life, procreation, as the holy way. It was Christianity, with its ressentiment against life at the bottom of its heart, which first made something unclean of sexuality—it threw filth on the origin, on the presupposition of our life.

  6. (GS§109) Let us Beware.— When shall we ever be done with our caution and care for this? When will all these shadows of God cease to darken our minds? When will we complete our de-deification of nature? When may we begin to “naturalize” humanity in terms of a pure, newly discovered, newly redeemed nature?

  7. (W&S§21) Man as the Measurer.—Perhaps all human morality had its origin in the tremendous excitement that seized primitive man when he discovered measure and measuring, scales and weighing—for the word Mensch [man] means the measurer—he wished to name himself after his greatest discovery!). With these ideas they mounted into regions that are quite beyond all measuring and weighing, but did not appear to be so in the beginning.

  8. (BG&E§95) To be ashamed of one’s immorality—that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

  9. (BG&E§201) How much or how little that is dangerous to the community, dangerous to equality, resides in an opinion, in a condition or emotion, in a will, in a talent, that is now the moral perspective: here again fear is the mother of morality.

  10. (AC§39) To resume, I shall now relate the real history of Christianity.–The very word ‘Christianity’ is already a misunderstanding–in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

  11. (GS§116) Herd instinct.— Wherever we encounter a morality, we also encounter valuations and an order of rank of human impulses and actions. Morality trains the individual to be a function of the herd and to ascribe value to himself only as a function. Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

  12. (M&A§7) What? Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?

  13. (SUM§5) When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one’s feet.

  14. (AC§52) "Faith" means not wanting to know what is true.—

  15. (AC§51) That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none—a quick walk through a lunatic asylum enlightens one sufficiently about this.—

  16. (NC1865) Faith does not offer the least support for a proof of objective truth. Here the ways of men part—if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe—if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. . . .

This event is organized by the 52 Living Ideas meetup group in New York City: https://www.meetup.com/52LivingIdeas

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