[ WP ] Everyone in the world wakes up one morning , with the knowledge , that sometime during the night , God died .

The atheists are burning the churches. 
 
 The faithful are mourning, wailing to the heavens, begging for what they once *almost* knew, and have now lost. 
 
 For most of us, life goes on just the same. 
 
 He was n't there when we needed Him. He did n't stop the wars, the crimes, the diseases. He caused us to bludgeon ourselves with fears of blasphemy and sin, and saved us ( if He ever truly did ) only by the most capricious of whims. If He was Our Father, He was an abusive one, smiting and condemning here and there for the most arbitrary sins, felling even His most devoted followers with blithe unconcern. 
 
 God is dead. Yeah. We know. 
 
 But the real question is: Was He ever truly alive?
