You were correct the first time. God never was alive to begin with. Except in the fragile and needy and unbalanced minds of the believers. Much like Santa Claus is in the minds of small children.

LOL!!

We need not bring Nietzsche into this. Anybody with half a brain and a modicum of guts knows God is a fairly tale.

The irony being that Nietzsche effectively built a new moral religion around his Ubermensch despite his proclamation of the death of God...

I maintain my position that the title is complete, albeit mildly ambiguous: God isn't dead, he never has been may be more acceptable to the general reading public, but is no less correct than God isn't dead; He never was, or, if you prefer sacrilege, God isn't dead; he never was. My usage of this conjugated "to be" is intransitive and is in current times considered to be literary: I argue against the latter interpretation with almost the vehemence with which I argue that your interpretation of my own interpretation is highly flawed.

you misunderstand the concept

Do I? Dost thou durst make such an accusation sans understanding of my mentality?

You are the one that brought up Nietzsche; his bizarreries played no role in my formation of this would-be debate. Rather, I had desired to open discourse into the misplaced loyalties and fidelity of the human race without calling on the 19th century philosopher whom I could be accused of misquoting were the debate intended to thematize (thematisieren if there are any fellow deutschsprachigen users here, given that there is a red squiggle indicating the word processor misunderstands my English and thus you very well may as well) such.

Judging from the quality of every other post (as well as this to which I am replying: which, I am most saddened to say, is of a higher quality than the others), I see that my desire for a debate on this site has been misplaced. The quality of thought and composition makes me wonder how this website has survived as long as it has. But then I look at the state of the race Homo with the laughable sapiens thereafter and I understand.

I prefer to think of my bellicose and ignorant cousins as Homo arrogāns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiMqzN_YSXU ... God laughs at your (self inflicted) ignorance

I think you're comparison is of apples and oranges, you see you are comparing ideals: "justice, morality, ..., humanism..." to something that is supposed to be more than an ideal. The only fair comparison here is truth, and that by definition is existent.

Wrong.

Us atheist scholars and men of science do not rely on blind and groundless faith as do the Theists. We rely on facts and observations. And we experiment. We use the empirical method.

If we have faith in anything, it is only because past experience justifies it. As in...I have faith in say, photosynthesis because it has been proven time and again.

Where as you Believers in a never-proven or even hinted-at god base your faith on only ideas in your head.

We do not externalize god. In fact, the very word god hardly ever enters our vocabulary, as we simply have no need for it.

Like, I have no need to use the word Zeus or Thor in my Biology labs.

They simply do not apply.

Nor does your god.

Hope this helps.

If we are premising being alive on having adherents, then the Greek Gods are not dead. There are a small number of Greek paganists, generally referred to as Hellenists, Hellenismos, Dodekatheists, or Olympianists.

The Greek gods are not dead. As they too have never existed.

Just like Yahweh, who is nothing but a concept of Hebrew Mythology.

Boooooooooooo, booooooooooooooo, your posts are bad and you should feel bad, boooooooooooooooooo

I'd ban you if I didn't believe in freedom of expression.