Another reason why it won’t die out is that even the opposite end of Christianity still exists.
Instead of a god who knows everything and is all powerful there is open and process theology.
Instead of a god who is a genie there to make your life better in every way there is a god who says you will suffer, you will die, life won’t be fair and this is how I still want you to live your life.
Also many Christians don’t fear a nihilistic mindset. Not even all atheists hold to a nihilistic mindset that the cosmos is bleak and cold but that in the same way humanistic philosophy and values
Have arose here where they still come to moral conclusions expects that likewise any other intelligent life out there will also develop compassion. That it’s not just us who are compassionate, though we are not actually a very compassionate species. We can be, but most are not. Most are still perfectly fine with torturing lesser lifeforms and eating their corpses. But many are far more compassionate towards wildlife and livestock and care more about the enviorment in general.
Religious beliefs may never ever die out. The majority of humans hold to some sort of religious beliefs now and a very wide spectrum of them. Christianity is just one of those main categories and it’s so diverse that some are seemingly completely different faiths.
So many of us don’t believe that God’s role is actually here to make life less bleak, but we actually believe it’s the role he intends us to take on. We don’t need mana from heaven feeding the poor, we are a first world nation with people who could not work for 10,000 years and still spend three times as much as the typical American each year. We have all kinds of solutions from taxes to charity to making food more affordable to sharing meals and so on.
And even in the face of miracles, many Christians like myself are cessationists.
Not even all Christians benefit from community. I am a very pro science bluist Christian. The bulk of Christians around me are very much pro red hat anti science Christians. So most Christian’s here have very different values than mine to the point we are actually enemies, not friends and it has even had negative impacts on my life. I’m also a bit of a lone wolf. Outside of work I sometimes go a whole week without seeing another human or talking to them in person. Sometimes I even get in my truck, side 20 hours out and then hike another 40 miles away from the nearest household and will camp for 1-3 weeks. Never see another human the entire time. Can’t even reach them on a phone.
Form fact some of the most hopeful outlooks I hold in life comes
From a far more atheistic starting point. I am very much drawn towards pansychism. None of it because of my faith. I don’t think souls are magical things but simply mean living being. The opposite of a soul to me is a corpse. But consciousness is not the same as soul anyways.
So I first realized that we’ll us humans are obviously consciousness. But very early in life realized that somewhere animals. Some conscious more so in a human relatable way. Dogs. A dog that’s happy and loved reacts very different from a dog who grows up abused and hated. An abused and hated dog can learn to know what being loved feels like. Pigs in factory farming shows great levels of stress, depression, rage. Some that have been rescued takes years to learn to be loved and to love. I volunteer at animal sanctuaries and see it all the time. Even roosters who show pure fear when you approach but can’t really run because of damaged legs or in a smaller space. Turnover weeks of just sitting near them, followed by weeks of them letting you sit next to them can even result into a rooster that loves to be petted in your lap. Wild birds can learn to not fly away from you in your yard . So we see consciousness in animals for sure.
Then we get to forms of consciousness that is even debated if it’s consciousness. Plant intelligence is a growing study. Especially as we begin to learn more about how thinking can happen in species like jellyfish ( which can think and move ) and learn more about things like how sometimes cells can operate as many brains all kinds of stuff .
But even deeper and harder is we don’t really know how consciousness developed. We don’t fully understand it. We dont fully understand how life begin. How did abiogenesis occur. At one point there was no life as we understand it. There was molecules aligning into patterns.
I’m too bored and busy to go further. But panosychism is not something cultivated personally out of my faith in any god but stems from questioning implications in the gaps we have about memories, the mind and life itself. That maybe just like how consciousness looks very different in humans and dogs, or humans and ants, or humans and jellyfish, that perhaps it’s also very different between humans and plants, humans and mushrooms and even humans and rocks. That as we learn more and a more about abiogensis, the less and less district life and material will look. Which to me is rather hopeful for not just us but the whole universe: for a fact it’s even how I mostly envision god. Not as an old man, but a consciousness that developed like a giant cosmic supercomputer by matter we don’t even understand aligning over billions of years.