Materiality without meaning is merely mechanics. Science by explaining how things work but not why they exist, allows humanity to manipulate matter but can give us no purpose for our being alive.

A sense of meaninglessness makes humans feel insecure. Insecurity causes conflict and hostility. Conflict and hostility lead to violence and war. Nations that are built on insecure people will never demilitarize and war will continue.

War is the worst death penalty because it executes anyone who gets in its way. If we knew, deep down inside, why we humans are here on planet earth, war would be hated instead of being celebrated, honored, and memorialized.

A meaningful life will never rise from rational materialism. It comes from transcending the physical and beholding “the Lamb of God.” It comes from surrendering to the “Prince of Peace”–the living, resurrected Jesus Christ.