There is so much in Nietzsche’s famous Thus Spoke . . . ! However, in particular, there is a passage that plays again and again in my memory, one early on in the book, in which Zarathustra is shocked and muted by the realization that the people he meets do not know that God is dead. Now, the whole “God is dead” thang is probably not worth examining here, though it certainly is worth examining elsewhere and at great length. What strikes me in the passage from this book is Zarathustra’s dismay over the failure of those he encounters to realize something that is so overwhelmingly obvious to anyone who stops . . . who waits . . . who abides long enough to feel the world shake. And though I am no Zarathustra and no Nietzsche and perhaps not even Craig Keen, I continue to be shocked and dismayed by the thoughtless failure of churchy people—and others—to admit that the game is over, that there are no good reasons to continue to believe in “God” and certainly to believe in “God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Of course, there are reasons to believe in God (note the dropping of the quotation marks) the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but only reasons that never submitted and never will submit to the knowledge of good . . . or evil.