There's a difference between having a sense that all life is a precious anomaly in a mostly lifeless universe, and being in a position to apply that intuition with perfect consistency. Progress for our kind means death to most other species. That's because we don't live in Utopia, but are stumbling around in doing our best.

I agree that religions have made a hash out of cosmic perspectives and have poisoned the well with their trivializing personifications. The Nietzschean question is whether a secular version of a cosmic perspective is necessary. At first glance, it's evidently not necessary to secular society, as the predominance of neoliberal consumerism demonstrates. But if that type of society proves to be self-destructive, Nietzsche's point about the dire death of God might come back around.

What would a long-term, stable secular culture look like? Would it be amoral, Machiavellian materialism, like in China? Or myopically, narcissistically libertarian like the US? As I wrote about elsewhere, there are collectivist and individualist forms of extant secular culture. I explore a third option, mixing pantheism with existentialism, pragmatism, and transhumanism.