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When Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche says God is dead, does he mean it literally or that humans abandoned God's morals?

I'm confused by the famous line in "Beyond Good and Evil".
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It's not literal.  Nietzsche doesn't believe any god exists.  For Nietzsche, human reason has advanced to a point where God is dead because we've killed the need for a god.  There is nothing left for a god hypothesis to explain.  Since religion gave meaning and morality to life, we may be tempted to go into some sort of nihilism, believing there is no morality and nothing matters in life.  Nietzsche is trying to combat that as well by saying we can create our own morality and values in life.