'God' is dead

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"God is Dead" (German: About this sound „Gott ist tot“ (help·info); also known as the Death of God) is a widely quoted statement by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It first appeared in Nietzsche's 1882 collection The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, also translated as "The Joyful Pursuit of Knowledge and Understanding"). However, it is most famously associated with Nietzsche's classic work Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra), which is most responsible for making the phrase popular.

Although the statement and its meaning is attributed to Nietzsche, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel had discussed the concept of the death of God, in his Phenomenology of Spirit where he considers the death of God to 'Not be seen as anything but an easily recognized part of the usual Christian cycle of redemption'. Later on Hegel writes about the great pain of knowing that God is dead 'The pure concept, however, or infinity, as the abyss of nothingness in which all being sinks, must characterize the infinite pain, which previously was only in culture historically and as the feeling on which rests modern religion, the feeling that God Himself is dead, (the feeling which was uttered by Pascal, though only empirically, in his saying: Nature is such that it marks everywhere, both in and outside of man, a lost God), purely as a phase, but also as no more than just a phase, of the highest idea.'The spirit in which it is intended is a verily Nietzschean manifestation; however, it is important to consider the material that gave rise to this idea.

Let love explode and bring the dead to life

(If love could bring the dead back to life then there wouldn’t be any dead people. There would be no reason to go to heaven to be with ‘God’ and your religion would ultimately be even more meaningless than it is now.)

A love so bold

(A bold love; what kind of crack are you smoking?)

To seek a revolution somehow

(If anything your bible would be seeking a revolution rooted in hatred and bigotry.)

Let love explode and bring the dead to life

A love so bold

To bring a revolution somehow

(Repetitive lyrics got it.)

Now I'm lost in Your freedom

(How does one get lost in someone else’s freedom?)

In this world I'll overcome

(What are you overcoming? Being lost in someone else’s freedom?)

My God's not dead

(Oh I’m sorry ‘your God’ isn’t dead. So he’s your personal ‘God’ sort of like how he shares your personal opinions?)

He's surely alive

(Nope, he’s dead and we need to get over that and face life as adults.)

He's living on the inside

(So ‘God’ is a virus, or some kind of fungi that needs a host?)

Roaring like a lion

(So lions that roar in the jungle are ‘God-like’?)

God's not dead

(First you said ‘your God’ now he’s everyone’s ‘God’? Secondly, he is dead! We can’t see him, hear him or touch him. Thus he’s either dead or doesn’t exist.)

He's surely alive

(Things that are alive can be observed and touched.)

He's living on the inside

(Living on the inside of what exactly?)

Roaring like a lion

(He’s not roaring like a goddamn lion!)

Roaring, He's roaring, He's roaring like a lion

(This is an insult to lions.)

Let hope arise and make the darkness hide

(Maybe then it will expose ‘God’ who clearly is hiding in some unknown abyss.)

My faith is dead I need resurrection somehow

(Your faith is dead because you know ‘God’ doesn’t exist. So instead of admitting your atheist stance you decided to write a crappy pop song. Perfect!)

Now I'm lost in Your freedom

(How in the fuck do you get lost in someone else’s freedom?)

In this world I'll overcome

(What are you overcoming, your stupidity?)

My God's not dead

(Your ‘God’, your ‘God’; your ‘God’ – he’s dead!)

He's surely alive

(No, he’s 100% dead and gone. He’s buried in some cemetery.)

He's living on the inside

(What if ‘God’ was living inside of a dog’s ass? Would you worship the dog’s ass and call it secrete ass?)

Roaring like a lion

(We all know lions don’t ‘roar’ they purr.)

God's not dead

(Do you have proof? You can’t use the bible either!)

He's surely alive

(He’s surely alive in your dreams.)

He's living on the inside

(Yes in a dog’s ass he’s alive.)

Roaring like a lion

(Purring like a lion. Lions purr remember?)

Roaring, He's roaring, He's roaring like a lion

He's roaring, He's roaring

(Here we go again with the lion discrimination.)

Let heaven roar and fire fall

(Why are you Christians so in love with torture and destruction? Damnation of the planet. End of the world.)

Come shake the ground

(So heaven is throwing out fire that’s causing earthquakes? Seriously, what kind of drugs are you on?)

With the sound of revival

(So the fire is reviving the bigotry and hatred back into the world?)

Let heaven roar and fire fall

Come shake the ground

With the sound of revival

Let heaven roar (Let heaven roar) and fire fall

Come shake the ground

With the sound of revival

He's living on the inside

Roaring like a lion

God's not dead

He's surely alive

He's living on the inside

Roaring like a lion

God's not dead

He's surely alive

He's living on the inside

Roaring like a lion

God's not dead

He's surely alive

He's living on the inside

Roaring like a lion

He's roaring, He's roaring, He's roaring like a lion

He's roaring, He's roaring, He's roaring like a lion (Roaring like a lion)

(Yes, ‘God’ does exist. He’s fully alive. He’s a parasite that needs a host. He’s a lion roaring for no fucking reason and also he’s allowing heaven to throw shit out of the sky and cause earthquakes.)