Should we be disheartened if God is dead?

Someone has asked: If God is dead, should we be disheartened?

No. There is no connection at all between the death of God and despair. In fact, if the false god—the one we had been taking for God—has come to an end, then the search for the true God can begin. The enemies of diamonds are not stones, but fake diamonds. Stones have no enmity with diamonds; they have no relationship with them at all. Counterfeit diamonds are the enemies of diamonds. Those who say there is no God are not opposing God; the real hostility toward God comes from those who have fabricated false gods. They have blocked humanity from reaching the true God. So do not be afraid of atheists. An atheist, one day, will become a believer through the very anguish of his atheism. And if someone is an atheist through and through, he cannot remain an atheist for long; his atheism itself will lead him into faith.…

Osho, is god really dead?

Remember, those who were ascetic people, who were ready to deny their nature, were very happy to believe in God. And the people who were more natural, more normal, were happy to believe that there was no God. The reason is the same: the natural person will feel afraid because the natural person will have sex, will have anger, will have jealousy. And God is going to punish him; if God is there then punishment is certain. It is better to say that there is no God; at least for the time being he can feel relieved. And the person who can repress his sex, his jealousies, his anger, would like to declare that God is, because all his investment is in God's existence. God's existence is very necessary for his asceticsm. The pathological people declare that God is and the natural people declare that there is no God. And…

First of all, many friends have asked this: On hearing that God is dead, we felt very sad!

They stopped by a well. The elder said, “Let me wash my hands and face a little.” He gave his bag to the young disciple: “Keep it carefully.” The elder went to wash. The disciple looked inside the bag—a brick of gold was there. He had suspected that the elder’s sense of danger meant there must be something in the bag; otherwise why fear? He saw the brick. The elder was busy washing. The disciple threw the brick into a pit and put a stone brick in the bag instead—a substitute brick, a replacement. The elder returned, quickly slung the bag over his shoulder, felt the weight, and walked on contentedly. After a while he asked, “Now the night has deepened; isn’t there a village nearby where we can stop? There isn’t any danger, is there?” The disciple said, “There is no danger at all—let’s go on.” The elder had…

Is god really dead?

I love this story. The rabbi asked, "Lord God, what art thou doing here?" God answered him with a small voice, "I am tired, Rabbi. I am tired to death." Yes. God is tired. In fact, God cannot die. God can die in YOUR life. There are millions of people in whose lives God is dead, in whose lives God has disappeared. That is the meaning when I say God is dead. Look into people's eyes and you will not find God alive there. And where else can God be alive? Millions and millions of hearts are completely empty of God. That's what I mean when I say God is dead. God lives in a Jesus, in a Buddha, in a Krishna. Is God living in you? The question is not basically about God, whether God is dead or alive. The question is whether God is alive in YOU! If…

Osho, is god really dead, as friedrich nietzsche says?

Because the Jewish-Christian-Mohammedan idea of God is not of a very nice fellow; he is not a gentleman. The Jewish God who is at the root of both the Christian and the Mohammedan God says himself, "I am a very jealous God. Those who are against me, I will destroy them. Those who are not with me are against me. Those who are with me will have all the pleasures of heaven, and those who are not with me will suffer eternal hellfire.'' Nietzsche says, "Rejoice, God is dead! There is no heaven and no hell. Don't be afraid of hell and don't be greedy for heaven, because there is no God. God is dead, and man is absolutely free." This has been done in the East in a far more subtle, delicate way. Mahavira says there is no God -- for the same reason as Nietzsche. Mahavira says if…