A Nihilistic Christian?

Nothing here matters — Jesus said so.

Emily Rose
8 min readSep 2, 2022
It’s cozy, like a hug. (photo credit: Tinysnailco on Etsy.com)

I may have mentioned once or twice before that I have an irrational lack of fear of the void, and it’s mainly Jesus’ fault. When death has no edge, and you have a personal friendship with the creator of everything, how could anyone blame me? It’s all just a moment, made up of other moments.

It can be easy to start feeling a bit jaded from time to time, though, and its worthwhile to check myself occasionally. There’s a lot of worldly baggage that’s worth throwing to the wind so you can run faster. After you live in the light and true love of Jesus Christ for a while, crap stops mattering pretty quick.

Like a flower of the field!

Because eventually, it dawns on you how temporary things are. Especially in a fast-food, fast-fashion, fast-entertainment world like the one ours has become, things come and go in an instant. Just look at the phenomenon we call the Osborne effect for proof. The rapid leap in technological advancement over the last three decades is even theorized to contribute to the stereotypical millennial sense of malaise and exhaustion, and I can relate to that. My earliest memories include Final Fantasy on NES and programing the VCR to…

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