Identity is one of the most basic human problems. Who I am? What am I for? The world offers several answers. In more hierarchical societies, your identity depends on the class or caste in which you were born. In the atheistic materialist conception, man is the result of a more prolonged chaos, whose sole purpose is to survive and reproduce. I saw a cartoon illustrating evolution, where there was first a fish, versus a lizard, then a primate, while thinking about “eat, survive, and reproduce. ” and in front of all a man who wonders the meaning of all this? ?To be or not to be? That is the question?. Logically, the cartoon wants to imply that this is a silly question and that we should only think about “eat, survive and reproduce”, but it demonstrates something that nihilism cannot deny: this human need for identity and purpose. So we have Sartre who says that since there is no objective goal, man must define his own. Jonas Madureira, in the Conference of Faithful Youth, preached how life requires young people to conform or what others want or want; and he offered a totally different third alternative: to have our identity and purpose shaped by the gospel. See a little more about this in the following interview:
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