What is Your Purpose in Life


Rev. Rick Warren wrote a million seller, The Purpose Driven Life. I've never read it but I think it says your purpose is to believe what the church tells you and tithe to the church. A piece showed up on a Christian site which addressed the same question, what is your purpose in life?

The way this question is asked within the faith, "What is the purpose of your life?", implies there is a purpose. Individual people can feel they have a purpose but there is no proof there is some humanity-wide purpose. Because of that vacuum, the door is wide open for self-serving opportunists to slip into one's brain and plant some purpose. It is always to help the scammer. The notion that each of us can figure this out for ourselves if we are interested in this question is blasphemy.  

Every reader knows how much the faith hates evolution. It is hated because a rational conclusion is humans are the result of events, not altogether random, but largely random. That being the case we have no particular purpose. The faith inserted itself into evolution by claiming it was all "intelligent design." Science shows us evolution has always taken place and is taking place at this moment. The rational conclusion has to be we just landed here and have no other purpose but to enjoy ourselves as long as possible. 

Individuals find purpose. For some it is doing good deeds for other humans. Some purposes that were popular in the past are fading. One is marriage and several children. Economics and changes in society have taken a toll on these. 

If you are a person who is searching for purpose, one of the great religions of the world might help you. Best you not assume, however, any of them will help others.  

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