The Teenager and the "Dead God"

Nietzsche made the famous quotation that "God was dead, he remains dead, and we have killed him." This idea carried over into the year 2010, and while we refuse to acknowledge the lack of commitment in our lives to the old church teachings and a sense of empty words that spew out when speaking of morals and how we feel about God. our culture is the epitome of posh style and complete destitution. We, the middle class teenagers, have all dealt with significant changes in our day to day lives. Teens enjoy a liberal sense of view which can be traced back to the liberal movements made by the college kids of the 1960s and early 70s. The changes produced a terracotta of ideas that moved from the old ideas of conservatism. However somehow in our quest to modernize, out ideas of our relatioship withGod changed.
The old ideas of conservatism often included church attendance and a "cookie-cutter" society which in the fifties a revival of the ideas put fourth in the early nineteen-hundreds. The end of the old culture became apparent when the babyboomer generation finally reached adulthood. The musical, social, economic, and sexual revolutions paved the way for new generations to expand the web of liberalism to a point where teens were also able to question their roles and faith in society. Questioning God became a common thing and suddenly a gap was forming. Transitioning into adulthood left people feeling rather loose in a roundabout way. No more church, no more old testament, no more 'old' God. Somehow revolting against the old ways once more because teens felt that the faith was slightly out of touch with the 'new' world. so in a sense we did infact kill God, a 'god' that is. the new century destroyed an old school of thought of what faith meant, and although it was not a tangible thing teenagers still believe in a 'God', just not the 'old' one.