How sad, empty and futile it is to look at the world as it truly is. “Meaningless! Meaningless! A chasing after the wind.” Follow the Ancient Greeks and revel

How sad, empty and futile it is to look at the world as it truly is. “Meaningless! Meaningless! A chasing after the wind.” Follow the Ancient Greeks and revel in the glory of youth and the honour of deeds? Man is mortal, and whatever his accomplishments, the best to hope for is memory. Follow the concepts of Buddhism and hope for an ultimate dissolution of the self (Nirvana) or adopt Hinduism's practices for divine union and accounting (Moksha)? Or embrace nihilism. We are but patterns on the edge of Chaos. Passing complexity as negative entropy is slowly absorbed? The Christian answer, which is not for everyone, is that the sin of Adam was such a profoundly impacting event, that all of creation has been subsequently cursed. So devastating was the affect of this one seemingly trivial sin, that all humans are forever condemned without hope. So destructive is sin, that the only resolution was the suffering, humiliation and eventual death of God himself (in the form of his son). Death and suffering entered the world, and now cats torture mice. Of course Christianity provides hope for the believer. The believer is in a transient state of suffering in a broken sinful world. The righteous judge will return to create a new heaven and a new earth. Temporary suffering will all be forgotten in the context of eternity.