This paper discusses the viewpoints of Nietzsche. Nietzsche, through the madman, was saying that God had ceased to exist or ceased to be God only in the unbeliever. He (Nietzsche) very powerfully told these unbelievers (and all other unbelievers at all other periods in history) what would befall them for removing and "killing" God in their hearts. He does this by asking: "Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Are we not straying?" The madman tried to rattle these men into seeing that, without God as light, men would not which way to move. The sun is at the center of the universe as God is at the center of creation and in the lives of men. Taking him out was like un-chaining the sun away from this planet, which is its source of existence and sustenance.
