There are such wildly different positions on Nietzsche's theories... I've read Christians who defend him as positing in his books that a world devoid of God and Christianity is a bad world and we must realize that we must adhere to Christianity. This position states that anywhere in Nietzsche's works where he is saying that God is dead, he is saying that because of our current level of corruption, we are pursuing a world wherein God does not exist and that is indeed a bad world.
My understanding, however, is that Nietzsche did indeed state that he feels that God does not exist and the traditional idea of God is dead; additionally, the church, as the embodiment of God, is no longer necessary in an age of reason...
I am always puzzled when such dichotomous positions can be soundly formulated from one idea or expression.
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