Nietzsche's Meaning To God As Dead

In Nietzsche's book, he is known for referring to God as "dead". A lot of people take this statement in offense but I believe his intentions were to suggest that the love for God the country once had, was slowly diminishing into a mere spectrum of yesterdays society. Nietzsche philosophy was typically insulted or looked down upon because nobody took the time to sit and dissect what he really meant in saying "God is dead."; although he clearly defends his statement by mentioning how Americans no longer worshipped like they once did. It is possible that maybe he did not express his opinion in a respectable manner towards the Christian religion, but I completely agree with what he had intended to say. Once upon a time, America based everything they had off of their religion, and their relationship with God.

Nietzsche recognized how the country began to act differently, and how they started to forget what they were founded upon. People didn't practice like they use too and he predicted a future society with more atheism than Christianity. He didn't make this predicament because it was his religious outlook but because it seemed to be nothing but a slippery slope from then on. If people if that society were already forgetting, or neglecting their traditional practices, future people would not be aware or custom to what once was... Philosophy is kind of crazy. He wasn't a psychic but he had enough common sense to be sure that the world was changing. People did not respect his opinion because they were afraid to accept that the world around them was becoming