as that "God is dead". One of the biggest problems with this claim is how it has been misunderstood and misconstrued over the years. However, he strongly believed, like all other philosophers, that moral and religious values were intimately related. Nietzche associated morality with Protestant values and ethics, therefore having its roots in Christian faith. Thus leaving him with a logical argument that the two belong together and will rise and fall together.
             Nietzche was not arguing whether there was a supreme being that existed or not, but rather he was concerned with peoples beliefs in a supreme being and the effects that those beliefs had on a person morally. Many argued that Nietzche was an atheist though what he had stressed was something different. Nietzche was saying that the belief in God no longer exists among the people. His argument was this, "for contemporary Christians, belief in god has no power, no practical significance in their lives. With the disappearance of belief in God, the morality that depends on that belief also disappears" (Morgan 243). A majority of the sacred texts from various religions have come to be through word of mouth and it was not until years later when the oral tradition was finally being carved in stone tablets. So who is to say what one must believe over the other? With this in mind, he was right on about God being dead because through various interpretations of the word of God there!
             have been many changes and alterations throughout history, which in turn have conjured up different beliefs among those who believe in various religions around the world. Though Nietzche's main focus was on European Christianity that had developed during his time and how the institution and its members have killed God through th
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