Introduction.

Questions everyone wants answered. Where did I come from? What is the meaning of life? How can I know right from wrong? What will happen to me after I die? Does God exist? These questions are embedded within each one of us.
Trending generational differences may have shifted the emphasis, and the growing dominance of a secular outlook has attempted to override them. Yet these primal concerns are still shared by everyone on the planet.

How Our Beliefs Have Shifted

In the past few decades, it has been fashionable to categorize how Americans think by analysing the beliefs and attitudes of the generations in which they were born. As with any such categorization, there are differing opinions about how to sort the generations, and there will always be exceptions and overlap between groupings. Still, a brief overview can provide a point of reference for understanding how our values and beliefs have changed over time.

Let us start with the Silent Generation, born during the Great Depression and World War II. Members of this group are typically conservative, religious, and financially secure. Next are the baby boomers, born after the war, many of whom rebelled against social norms and instigated the countercultural protests of the 1960s.

Members of Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, tend to be resistant to government and have liberal views on social issues. Millennials, born in 1981 and later, are usually better educated and more tech-savvy than earlier generations, but less likely to endorse the norms of religion, race, sexuality, and politics of their predecessors. Members of Generation Z, which began with the year 1997, are commonly considered more independent, less social, but more socially conscious, more inward-turned, and more technologically dependent.

I do not doubt that these characterizations of the general mindsets of the generations carry considerable weight. The trend has been away from traditional values, religious belief, and social responsibility and has moved toward hedonism, materialism, secularism, and self-sufficiency. Yet those troublesome questions about origins, meaning, morality, eternity, and God’s existence remain.

A Journey to Find Answers

You may be reading this blog because you have reached a place in your life where these questions have risen up to confront you. You may have begun to feel that the faith you embraced in the past no longer has the answers you need. Perhaps the answers offered by secular culture seem as if they might better fit the realities you encounter.

If this describes you, or if you are concerned about someone who is facing these questions, I urge you to accompany me on a journey to discover the answers. This is no mere excursion into trivialities dressed in platitudes written in typical religious blog jargon. I will lead you to solid answers that I will demonstrate to be firmly rooted in reality. I will show you that truth is a firm reality you can know with certainty and that meaning is possible when you align yourself with that truth.

I will begin our journey in this first blog in the series by exploring the misconceptions inherent in secularism that have blocked off the light of truth from modern culture.

A Roadmap for This Series

Part One: The Bedrock of Truth
We will consider how to find and rely on the bedrock truths that have underscored successful and satisfying lives throughout the past 20 centuries. I will show that God is no fantasy and demonstrate undeniable steps of reason that can lead you to certainty that He is real.

Part 2: Addressing Secularism
We will examine the weaknesses of several secular and naturalistic props to atheism, especially those explaining ultimate origins. I will demonstrate through reason, scientific evidence, and the writings of prominent scientists how secular origin theories often contradict science, reason, and observable reality.

Note: When I use the terms naturalism or naturalistic, I mean the philosophy that asserts that nature is all that exists, that there is no supernatural realm, and that there is no transcendent God who exists outside or above nature. There may be shades of difference between naturalism, materialism, secularism, and atheism, but I will use naturalism as a convenient term to encompass these and similar beliefs that exclude God.

Part 3: Finding Meaning
We will turn a corner and focus on how belief in God provides the only viable foundation for meaning and embodies the truth that bathes the world in beauty and joy.

Our Approach to Finding the Truth.

Lest you fear that I am about to bombard you with Bible verses and Scripture proof texts to support my claims, I assure you that I will not. In fact, you may find this to be one of the strangest Christian blogs you have ever read. Nowhere in this blog do I support my arguments with biblical references. I realize that biblical proofs would be meaningless if you are sceptical of religion.
Instead, I will make every attempt to rely solely on reason, observation, evidence, and common sense in supporting my propositions and reaching my conclusions.
This blog began as an update of a previous idea for a blog series I wrote in August 2025. Perceiving a rising need to address the secular mindset that now dominates Western culture, I essentially ended up with an altogether different blog. As we tackle head-on the questions that people of all generations are beginning to ask, I trust that it will help you find stability in a society rapidly descending into chaos. More importantly, I believe that it will reassure you that God does indeed exist.