Instant upvote for a Philiip Mainlander quote at the end. He's the OG "God is Dead" guy and Nietzsche was reacting (very poorly) to Mainlander and other pessimists like Schopenhauer when he followed up with his own, shittier version of "god is dead"

Please read up on his life. Mainlander is the most extreme/radical Philosophical Pessimist of them all. He wrote a whole book about how you should rationally kill yourself and then he killed himself shortly after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Mainl%C3%A4nder

https://dokumen.pub/the-philosophy-of-redemption-die-philoso...

Max Stirner and Mainlander would have been friends and are kindred spirits philosophically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_philosophical_...