The reactive man puts God to death because he can no longer bear there being a witness, he wants to be alone with his triumph and his strength. He puts himself in God’s place: he no longer knows any values which are superior to life, but only a reactive life that is satisfied with itself and claims to secrete its own values. The weapons which God gave him, ressentiment, even bad conscience—all the forms of his triumph—are turned against and opposed to God. Ressentiment becomes atheistic, but this atheism is still ressentiment, always ressentiment, always bad conscience. God’s murderer is the reactive man, “the ugliest man”, “rumbling with bile and full of secret shame”.