&gt; Ultimately, secular thought (agnosticism and atheism included) is just an inferior product compared to religions. It doesn&#x27;t provide out-of-the-box answers to these really hard questions and as a result can be a very scary and lonely ideology.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that it&#x27;s the job of philosophy to construct comforting fairy tales, if it actually is the case that life has no inherent meaning or purpose.<p>At best, it can give you a guide to construct your own meaning.