2. The incompatibility of the concepts of fate, free will and God's omniscience.

Western religions - Islam, Christianity, Judaism - believe in the concept of judgement. We will, when we die, be judged upon on our behaviour on Earth. This implies that we have free will - God made us free to make our own decisions, or else how could he judge us?

This, however, begs a further question. If God is omniscient he knows everything. Absolutely everything that you ever have done, are doing and will do. In a sense, therefore, you cannot really have any free will at all - in that since God knows 'the future' nothing you do with your 'free will' makes any difference. The future is predetermined because is it is already known (to God). For the theist, therefore, everything, logically, must be determined by 'fate'. Hence, it begs the question, if you don't have any real choice in your life, how can you be judged on the basis of the way you live it?

Again, we have to cope with inconsistency. The notions of an omniscient God and human free will are logically inconsistent. And yet the theist claims both to be true.

God is dead

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, the murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives - who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must not we ourselves become gods simply to seem worth of it? There has never been a greater deed - and whoever shall be born after us, for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."