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Why atheism today? - "The father" in God has been fundamentally disproved, as well as "the judge," "the rewarder." Together with his "free will." He is not listening - and if he were to hear, he wouldn't know how to help anyway. The worst thing is this: he appears incapable of communicating clearly. Is he indistinct? - From a number of different conversations, asking and listening, this is what I have unearthed as the cause of the decline of European theism. It seems to me that the religious instinct is, in fact, growing powerfully - but that it is rejecting, with profound distrust, theistic satisfaction.

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
Part III - Aphorism # 53

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