God is Dead - Nietzsche's Blunder

We've all heard the phrase, right? Whether on a t-shirt, billboard, or in a philosophy textbook, this audacious claim by Nietzsche revolutionized the world we live in. However, despite the limelight claimed by this quote, we rarely think about the implications it carries with it. If God is truly dead, what happens? Or if, as atheists will claim, God never existed, what are the logical conclusions that can be drawn from such a belief? I am not attempting to disprove Nietzsche; rather, I am merely going to extrapolate this idea that "God is Dead", and take it to its logical end. Welcome to the world of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Here is an extended edition of Nietzsche's quote from "The Gay Science":

Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!"
As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

"Where has God gone?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. We are his murderers..."

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