need for meaning

So I’m sitting in a conference session of “The Society of Christian Philosophers”, listening to a paper discussing God’s actualization of the best possible worlds and thinking that existentialists like Sarte might have been on to something in their insistence upon meaning. It is not that all these arguments aren’t interesting or that they may not even serve some purpose in winning over the respect of presently nonsympathetic nontheists, I’m just not sure that the questions Christian philosophers are answering are the ones that the world wants answered. Perhaps society may grant that God exists and yet still be puzzled over how exactly his existence matters to life. There may be a great metaphysically absolute principle through which God’s existence is proved necessary, but the narrative that explains how this absolute is to be understood and embraced still needs to be told. Oh mighty intellectual mind of subtle distinctions and persuasions tell me whether you have proved anything that explicates the absurdities of this life of mine Philosopher will you sit down and show and tell us how you use your ideas to bring you solace as you sleep.