Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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A Catholic friar claims Gen Z's hopelessness, apathy, and distrust prove they're falling into nihilism—but he fundamentally misunderstands what nihilism actually means. Nihilism is the belief that nothing matters, so you don't care about anything. But when Gen Z says things are worse than they were 20-30 years ago, that's NOT nihilism—that's caring deeply about the state of society and humanity. If you didn't care, you wouldn't be talking about it or writing articles about it. Acknowledging that the world is in a worse state shows concern, not apathy. And here's the contradiction: this same friar earlier criticized people for being too focused on earthly life instead of the afterlife, but now he's calling Gen Z nihilists for caring about societal decline? You can't have it both ways. Either caring about the world matters or it doesn't. This is just another example of religious apologists misusing philosophical terms to make their point without understanding what those terms actually mean.