[MaxfordAndSons]

Not trying to wade into theological debates, but I feel compelled to defend Nietzsche from this common misrepresentation of his work: he did not, in fact, think that the "death of god" was a bad thing because it actually removed an "objective basis" for peoples value systems - to him there had never been such a basis. He did see a potential danger that those who had previously been inured to religious value systems would fall into nihilism upon losing them, but he also saw it as the opportunity it was to seek out new and better value systems, perhaps even grounded in reality rather than mysticism.