Full Idea
It is amazing that so many philosophers take the death of God as tragic. Atheism is not a drama, but the philosopher's serenity and philosophy's achievement.
Gist of Idea
Atheism is the philosopher's serenity, and philosophy's achievement
Source
G Deleuze / F Guattari (What is Philosophy? [1991], 1.4)
Book Reference
Deleuze/Guattari: 'What is Philosophy?' [Verso 1994], p.92
A Reaction
It seems to me that it is the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that feels the death of God as a tragedy. Modern Anglo-American philosophers are mostly pretty serene on the subject, unless, like Dennett, they go on the offensive.