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Theological defenses of procreation falter when confronted by the problem of evil. If a loving God orchestrates existence, then creating new beings guaranteed to suffer becomes an act of divine contradiction.
This essay examines the profound and often overlooked convergence between the Buddhist analysis of suffering (dukkha) and the ethical conclusions of antinatalism.
Theological defenses of procreation falter under the immense weight of the problem of evil, questioning the myth of a loving creator.
Buddhist analyses of suffering, when followed to their logical conclusions, find a powerful and unexpected resonance with the core tenets of antinatalism.
To create new life under the banner of a loving God requires reconciling procreation with the problem of evil. This essay argues that theological defenses fail.
The Buddhist diagnosis of universal suffering (dukkha) finds a modern echo in antinatalism. An examination of their shared logic reveals the profound wisdom of non-birth.
Theological defenses of procreation fail to resolve the problem of evil, suggesting that if a creator exists, its gift of life is not one of love, but of unjustifiable risk and suffering.
While not explicitly antinatalist, Buddhist doctrine's core analysis of suffering (dukkha) provides a potent philosophical framework for the conclusion that non-birth is the most compassionate act.
Mysticism is not the opposite of reason. It is what reason looks like when it remembers it has a body.
Reading more than one tradition does not relativize them. It reveals what they are each, separately, struggling to say.