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> Perhaps I still should do it.

Not until you're clear of the place! You can jeer them all you wish when you are safely out of their reach. Just reflect on these matters, as you are, and absorb lessons your teachers never intended.

My lesson would be, those who deny G-d end up worshiping whatever they put in His place -- Science, Natural Selection, The Party, sex, drugs, power, canasta. Clearly, we are G-d driven, and surely this was what He intended. No substitute G-d can claim to be good or put a moral dimension into the universe. Therefore, substitutes can neither explain the moral hunger we find within ourselves nor urge us to good behavior. In the end, they explain nothing.

Nothing is new under the sun. As a young man (teenager) existentialism and existential writers were my teachers. I remember reading then, what I just found on the web, about Jean Genet, a real reprobate, a thief, pornographer, 'miserable' prostitute, and a repeat offender. But the world of art and philosophy petioned the court for his freedom so that he would not be hampered in sharing his genius with the world.

In 1948 Genet was convicted of burglary for the 10th time and condemned to automatic life imprisonment. However, by 1947 his works had gained attention from such writers as Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide and Jean Cocteau.

After the sentence, they petitioned the President of the Republic for his release. The request was granted, and he thanked by giving the society a poetical interpretation of the values of the criminals, in which a prison cell can turn into a place of monastic meditations or scene of sexual fantasies.

Didn't soceity luck out!

BTW I refuse to call the gay,and my preferred usage is'miserable'. More to the point I think.