i'm glad you brought up that christian guy and your thoughts on christianity as potentially cowardly. something i've accepted more as i got older is that basically everyone is 'coping' when it comes to inherent meaning in themselves or reality. ultimately our deepest instinct is survival and our consciousness of our own death does instill a primal fear within all of us that cannot be denied, though it can be overcome. even the basic observation that reality has no inherent meaning can be read as a coping proclamation of sorts. if there is no meaning, why try to discover that in the first place, why discuss it? i think we all cope in one way or another, it's very human. as for paradoxes or things unknowable (wrote about this in last post but a final thought) this is very familiar to the orthodox world because we are okay with saying "we can't know that" rather than analyzing something to death and overstepping our boundaries like the catholics or protestants
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