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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

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Are You a Religious Believer?

The religious believer used to be able to say, look, the choices that I make are right because God demands that I make them. And nowadays, our kind of, to say that we live in a secular age, say, well, you can't quite do that and be a religious believer. Your religious belief can't justify that move, and so it can't ground your life in the way it does. So it's sort of unsettling. That's one of the interpretations of what Nietzsche might have meant when he said God is dead.

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