The Flight From Humanity, Second Edition by Rousas John Rushdoony
Thus, the sons of Plato proclaim 'the death of God,' i.e., the God of Scripture, because He refuses to exist in terms of their definition. It does not greatly trouble them to proclaim God dead; in fact, the supposed funeral is their celebration. The 'death' of the God of Scripture, however, requires the death of the man created in His image, and, as a result, 'the death of God' society seeks then to destroy historical man, the real man of time, in order to create a new man in terms of their idea and purpose. Man as an Idea in philosophy and sociology is an inhuman abstraction; he is a monster who neither exists nor can exist.
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