Is God Required for a life to have Direction and Purpose?

The problem is I know many people who are christians who are on the other side of the story: they have gotten divorced, believed the god will provide crap, and generally do not have very fulfilling lives. THat is not to say that all of the people who fit the description are christians, I know plenty who are not who also fit. It is just that it is far more the person than the "faith". Many people can not find a goal or a direction in their lives on their own, so they turn to something to give them direction, The most common place that they turn is religion. Others, like myself and many others that I know, do not require religion to give us goals and direction in our lives. We get it from the inside, from our mental discipline and from a sense of self.Religion often acts as a solace or a means of direction for those who lack the force of mind or personality to provide themselves with a sense of direction. Your evidence is more proof of the frailty of many people than it is of a diety.------------------
"Chance favors the prepared mind." L. Pasteur
Taz

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God provides the reason for our existance and will provide direction
to those who desire to serve HIM.

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Actually, as I said earlier I provide my own reason for existance. Put another way, if you are right then how come all of those people who do not believe in your god can operate in this world in a sane, kind, purposeful manner. Why are their lives not empty of purpose and meaning. Many find their meaning in other religions, many find in in themselves.I am sorry that you can not provide for your own purpose and direction, and I have no need of your supposed diety to provide them for me.

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One cannot be a lukewarm towards
GOD nor a fence sitter and expect great things to just happen.

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THat is because one must go out and MAKE great things happen.

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Louis Pasteur was a very Christian man by the way.

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And Aristotle, Plato, Li Er and Sun Tzu were not. So what