For Nietzsche understanding the death of God means not simply giving up belief in a supreme creator. It involves the realization that our morality, our way of life, is without any external grounding. Once we truly face the death of God we are left with two possibilities: (1) we give up all possibility of any grounding and fall into Nihilism, the total absence of fundamental values or (2) we provide our own individual groundings for our own individual values.

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