You agree with this?
Religion is needed now more than ever. There's a reason the OP made this post. With no higher meaning life seems hollow and pointless. In a world where there really is no transedant concept of right and wrong but all is just a matter of person opinion. Where it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things whether or not you are a good or bad person, then of course life ceases to have any meaning. Nothing really matters.
As Raymondo said, from the perspective of today's human condition religion is becoming increasingly more irrelevant to folks.
As a believer I don't function within the scope of the human condition he's referring to which is a fully Godless state steeped in sin.....the unrepentant human condition.
So I agree that today's average Joe exists in this condition in which the desire for God is slowly fading away and the deception of God's spiritual enemies has a firm hold.
Now, from a Christian worldview, that does not conform to the standards of this world, I recognize the absolute need for Jesus Christ......the repentant human condition.
Believers and unbelievers process virtually every aspect of the repentant human conditoin in reverse. What believers know as good they see as evil and vice versa.
For most unbelievers (and atheists in particular) there is simply no drawing upon their lives from God and hence they deem all things of God as nonsense. They have zero comprehension of the spiritual world around them and demand proof, but fail to realize (or acknowledge when told) that the ability to know the things of God and discern the things of God requires surrendering in humble, respectful faith to the will and purposes of God. He engages those that desire to know him, not those that dismiss or hate him.
The entire struggle between theism and atheism is a believer's effort to share the gospel and give reasons for the hope of God within them while for some unbelievers the effort is to justify and reason away every bit of the believer's position.
This atheistic suppression of the truth of God's reality (that everyone already understands within themselves as true) can't be overcome unless God first draws them out. Our efforts as believers are to help find these folks with a desire for Christ. The majority are so deep in personal suppression, deception by God's spiritual enemies and a clear desire to engage in sin (which equates to hatred of God) are slowly but surely sealing their eternal fate.
I long for them, but can't help them.
Most in this state would read the words of my post and meet it with "blah, blah, blah.....Christian rhetoric nonsense....blah, blah, blah". I pray their lives can be changed for God, but in the meantime they can continue to fills themselves to overflowing with every explicit desire they can imagine because their existence will abruptly change when they enter God's realm. As much as my heart breaks for them they will reap a divine, wrathful judgment (that they deserve) and will come to fully understand the folly of their life's pursuit forever.
I just pray I can be used by God to help intervene for these folks before their lives on earth come to an end.
