Or to carve the new world out of our own flesh like the gods we finally realize we are.

I'll pass on the carving of my own flesh and I'm not trying to play God. That's the madness of fiat. Let's just be healthy, sane and free again... and take it from there.

When that German fella said god is dead, he meant that you, the ubermench, should take on the responsibility and freedom of directing your own life by reevaluating your values for yourself and NOT through the mental models of your lords, parents, or slaves. There’s no freedom without the responsibility of thinking for yourself. This isn’t self help new-sigma signaling—this is news from the former slave himself, Socrates.

Nietzsche was a miserable, mentally ill fruitcake and things did not end well for him. God is very much alive and freedom is not a childish state of rebellion. His work is little more than a tantrum in intellectual clothes. His ideas are maladaptive poison. His work was accepted into to canon of modernity because it rationalized and mythologized and contributed to the nonsensical post hoc word magic that props up the debt slavery machine, just like every other modern "intellectual" from Wycliffe on. Socrates is worthy of your respect. He was a pagan but he had natural virtue and was truly brilliant. He reasoned like a man where Nietzsche was a boy stoping his foot and justifying himself with melodramatic word salad.

How does having someone who is supernatural on your side encourage individuals to take responsibility?

Wouldn't that depend on what one believes. How does being a nihilist make one more iinclined to take responsibility? Objective morality, objective reality and eternal consequences, with grace, humility and forgiveness for true contritiom is the best framework for responsibility I can personally imagine...

Belief has a complicated relationship with thinking—do you believe/think Socrates himself believed in Apollo literally or did he do so for the dual reasons of (1) avoiding being cancelled by Athenian normative values and (2) because the gods provided him as a public figure a useful trope for the rhetorical subject position of humility (without which there can be no objectivity since there would be no subject-object relations)? Socrates must have understood that most men need the menace of judgement to be good and if men are not good (social contract as minimum for social order) they or their neighbors would never live long enough to get to know themselves and consider what it might mean to be good.