“God is dead,”  announces the madman in Friedrich Neitszche’s The Gay Science. But the quote is incomplete. He goes on to say, “but we killed him.” To get a better sense of this most famous and perhaps most misunderstood of quotable quotes, your hosts give you both context and begin a process of clarification by suggesting what the statement does not mean.

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