While our modern atheists tend to want the benefits of religion without a God telling them what to do, Nietzsche looked at a world without God and was horrified. When he had a character in another work say that God is dead, it was a cry not of triumph but of despair.
This book explores more of what it would mean to live in a universe where man is the only authority. Specifically, since morality tends to come from religion, without religion mankind would be beyond morality, too. While part of me thinks everyone should read this just to see what lies behind celebrity atheists like Richard Dawkins and Penn Gillette. Another part, though, knows it's pretty dull. Evil, it seems, really is banal.
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