By three holy books I mean the Quran , Talmud and Bible. In all the stories of creation and "God" we seem to be made by gods "image". Gods image which is one of the core competencies of the "Gods ego death theory" Or at least that is what comes to mind.
I remember seeing this on an /x/ conspiracy ice berg. This is entirely my take on it, but I was tripping on acid when I was thinking about it and I came up with about two explanations: This "God" is the Abrahamic god in particular, and the reason it seemingly undergoes a change in character from the OT to the NT is that it had an ego death.I remember also seeing another user describe god as being thrown into deep deppression because of immortality and knowing there was an only way of laying dormant was to expand himself destroying his ego and creating the universe. Any Ideas?
Neitzche expounds on this in "Also Sprache Zarathustra", stating that in his younger days Jehovah was bitter, ill-tempered, jealous, and warlike, destroying the other gods who he saw as his competition, or where that failed at least disbanding their cults and reducing them to the level of mere folk tales. But as he grew older he became softer and increasingly senile, in part due to the direct influence of Christ's ascetic preachings.
This became especially pronounced after the 30 Years War, where the protestant countries (all of them germanic, something I find significant) and the catholic countries refused to fight any further and signed the Treaty of Westphalia. The Pope, angered by this, demanded that the Catholic kings keep fighting to bring the Protestants again under his command, and the Catholic Kings simply ignored him. Thus Papal Authority was demolished and Christianity would not spread by war any further, at least not in the way it used to. The fear and hatred of "Witches" and "Heretics" faded, replaced by the far weaker notion of the "brotherhood of all men" - one more fitting for the new era. Wars would not be fought over religion anymore - now Christianity could spread only in the wake of wars waged for different causes and means, by the colonial european empires striving ever to outdo each other.
And so it was that Christianity began, increasingly, to cease being taken seriously. Zarathustra thence states "GOD IS DEAD! Of his pity for man he has died!"
This is effectively Jehovah's "ego death". His entire schtick is based on him being the only god that should be acknowledged or worshipped.
Before Christ, this was achieved through careful manipulation and curses to keep the jews in line, as we see in the story of Jeroboam, who preached that all the semitic gods who lifted them out from slavery in Egypt should be acknowledge, not just Jehovah, and was struck down for it, and in Nebuchadnezzar II's conquest of Israel, where, after placing statues to the other semitic gods (baal, moloch, etc.) in the Temple of Solomon, the foremost rabbis came together and decreed that no god except Jehovah existed at all - forming the predecessors to the later Pharisees.
After Christ, this was achieved through the notion of "being saved". Man is a weak, sinful, and shameful beast, but all is forgiven in Christ - all that needs to be done is to convert and acknowledge him and his Father as the one and only god, and Man's lord and savior. But those who deny God will burn in the lake of fire for all eternity.
Zarathustra thence states "More like SAVED ones [the followers of Christ] should have to appear to me!" And I think people are increasingly agreeing with this. It is easy now to compare the lives of those who are still fanatical towards Jehovah with the lives of those who aren't, and for many people, the problems that dog them from day to day still exist within the communities of the faithful, in fact they are sometimes even worse. What, exactly, have the faithful been "saved" from? Only the lake of fire, and increasingly people are denying that too, not only because of greater scientific understanding, but also theologic and philisophical understanding - it is easy to compare Abrahamic religions with other religions now, and the notion of an "all-loving" god who consigns to an eternity of torment anyone who will not bow down to or "accept" him is increasingly becoming distasteful, especially with all forms of authoritarianism being decried more and more.
Zarathustra says "God is dead, but as of yet no new god has come to replace him". In other words, the old trappings of Christianity, the ego inherent to Jehovah, have become unsuitable for the modern world, but the religion(s), god(s) and philosophies which will come to replace it have not yet been born, leading to an awkward in-between state of nihilism where everything seems aimless.