In the relentless tide of modernity—where urbanization and instrumental rationality advance inexorably—the fertility of humanity is falling into a profound and seemingly unstoppable decline. This decline is not merely a statistical anomaly; it is a sign of a deeper ontological retreat: a quiet surrender to the will to life itself. If the current trend continues without any counterforce to stop it, what humanity faces is not a catastrophic destruction from the outside, but a slow self-extinction from within—a decline stemming from a disinterest in continuation. So, what force can stop this slide into nothingness? Only the ancient and uncompromising fires of religion, which still burn today, contain a challenge to existence. These traditions do not compromise with secular convenience or autonomous calculation; they proclaim that fertility is the highest blessing, a sacred commandment echoing since the dawn of creation: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” Consider the extreme Orthodox Jews (Haredi), the Amish in America, the Latter-day Saints (Mormons), and the devout believers of certain Islamic sects. Among them, children are not mere appendages of personal accomplishment but embodiments of divine grace and covenant responsibility. Nurturing life is a response to the eternal commandment, integrating oneself into the chain of existence, refusing the temptation of modern society to reduce life to solitary pleasure or economic gain. In the era that Nietzsche prophesied—the age of the “last man,” where people are content in tepid comfort and no longer dare to transcend themselves—these communities stand as resilient witnesses: life is worthy of affirmation; it needs to be passed on. They refuse to equate freedom with sterility, but rather see the weighty responsibility of continuation as a remedy to avoid obliteration. If humanity wishes to escape the oblivion of self-forgetting extinction, perhaps it must reclaim this religious spirit of affirmation—an intense commitment to the continuation of life, a determination that the flame of life should not be extinguished in the cold calculation of modernity. Otherwise, what awaits us will not merely be a shrinkage of population but a quiet extinction of the human will to survive.

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