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It’s metaphorical though. Nietzche was atheist.
In the book it appears (The Gay Science), it isn’t Nietzche saying it, but a character called “the madman”.
It’s supposed to represent the existential despair left by the void of the meaning god used to provide.
Like a mourning not of god, but of the rigid epistemologies of the time, a “grass is greener” longing due to the void in meaning left behind.