I agree, it would be like this reassuring and comforting feeling you could return to any time, to make you feel understood and that in the end it will be okay, a higher power knows your struggles and they are not in vain, there is a place for you in Heaven at the end of all this if you have faith and do what's right. In the darkest times, you can sit in a beautiful church space with others or alone or by an altar in candle light and be reminded that you are not alone, there is hope and meaning in the struggle, a merciful God loves you and wants you to to prosper,there is a higher plan, giving you strength and the resilience to keep going. I really believe that some people need that and without it, an emptiness is created that cannot be filled,even if we view it now as naive,childish wishful thinking. Of course everyone handles it differently and many just go through life trying not to think of the deeper questions and accept the lies that the culture feeds them, that meaning can be found through materialism and success, many other things etc, but it can never satisfy the deepest spiritual longings we feel, which it why it has has central importance to human life since time immemorial. We simply know too much now to go back, we have to find other copes to get through, a major one being to try to help others around you and not create more suffering,as you feel the heaviness and weight of it on yourself. This society creates loneliness though, and the feeling that everyone is out for themselves,there is no community anymore and everything is viewed as transactional, so the opportunities to help and connect with others seems harder and harder,helping others is seen as a sign of weakness,or most people can barely afford and look after themselves. I am just about hanging on, but I struggle with a lack of meaning everyday, I know for a fact a belief in God would help me immensely.
