Thank you! I was glad to make a post like this; it really came from my heart.

People can indeed find a reason for living and be very ethical without religion. But their hope is without a solid foundation. If life indeed evolved, what is life, but a clog of cells deceiving themselves that there is something abstract and beautiful within? Plus, if we build who we are on anything but God, our identity, as Timothy Keller notes, becomes "inherently unstable": If someone builds his life around being a good parent, if his children desert him, who is he now? There was a mother who found herself extremely depressed because she wound her whole purpose for living around her son, who became a failure. You cannot set your foundation on humanity (including yourself), because humanity will always fail you. And if not in other ways, in death. No one can defeat death ( ... )

Well that was more than a little bit offensive! How dare you presume my identity is anymore unstable than your own. Though I fail to understand why you think it matters that someone's identity shifts throughout their lifetime. That is not a crisis. Why do you assume failure rocks my foundation? I assure you, it does not. Personal failure can be a wonderful thing ( ... )