Editing God is dead (section)

==== Stirner ====
German philosopher [[Max Stirner]], [[Relationship between Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner|whose influence on Nietzsche is debated]], writes in his 1844 book ''[[The Ego and its Own]]'' that "the work of the [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]], the vanquishing of God: they did not notice that man has killed God in order to become now – 'sole God on high{{' "}}.<ref>"At the entrance of the modern time stands the 'God-man'. At its exit will only the God in the God-man evaporate? And can the God-man really die if only the God in him dies? They did not think of this question, and thought they were finished when in our days they brought to a victorious end the work of the Enlightenment, the vanquishing of God: they did not notice that man has killed God in order to become now – 'sole God on high'. The other world outside us is indeed brushed away, and the great undertaking of the men of the Enlightenment completed; but the other world in us has become a new heaven and calls us forth to renewed heaven-storming: God has had to give place, yet not to us, but to – man. How can you believe that the God-man is dead before the man in him, besides the God, is dead?" [https://archive.org/stream/StirnerTheEgoAndItsOwn/Stirner%20-%20The%20Ego%20and%20Its%20Own_djvu.txt Max Stirner: The Ego and its Own – Introduction of part II]</ref>