Posted: Mar 23, 2012 8:09 pm
I was refering to my own experience.
Christianity claims there is a a god that created reality for a purpose. Imagine you see a car. You don't need to know exactly how it works but the idea that it was created makes intuitive sense and answers your initial questions.
I had alot questions about the nature of God when I was in Christianity. But I had an answer to why I existed. If someone said "That car wasn't designed by humans" that would create a different kind of question and mystery to asking how the car functions.
When I left the religious narrative I had no experience of a secular upbringing and secular relatives to fall back onto. I had to completely recreate my life and ideologies which most people don't have to. When you have to recreate meanings you realise how tenuous and taken for granted they were in the first place.
So for example say we eradicated society and brought up a generation without marriage would they reinvent it?
People should just stop procreating because it leads to inevitable and nontrivial suffering (Benatar) Personal oblivion will come to us all (if there is no afterlife) making all out current hopes and aspirations irrelevant but I am sure having a child amy comfort some and mean they don't have to feel a complete sense of personal extinction having left something of themselves behind...