I don’t see this. Many people in my country are religious, and believe that God (the Christian one) has a plan for them—-the exact opposite of nihilism.
This does often manifest in what is essentially nihilism, though — e.g. “I’m not taking the vaccine; if God’s will is that I die from COVID then so be it.”
That’s a good point, I hadn’t considered that.
Also, the rest of us have to actually live in the world the planless plan-believers have created for us.
Isn't this the core of nihilism, just framed differently?