Oh I do so agree with you here, Alamo-Girl! Yet a perceptive person might recall that such a question -- What is the meaning of life? -- cannot be addressed, let alone answered, without answering (consciously or unconsciously) Leibnitz's two great questions: Why are things the way they are, and not some other way? And why is there anything at all?"
One could try, I suppose. But I wouldn't bet money on the result.
Thank you ever so much for your excellent observation.
Good post! I think it's important to remember that naturalism has political and social consequences. Would a society drenched in naturalism be healthy and conservative or dysfunctional and leftist? Individuals may be able to fit any of those categories but I expect a society in which God is so severed from our lives would become extremely self-serving and materialistic. Spiritual voids tend to be filled by the state.
Indeed, Leibnitz's two great questions are the most important and would lead to the answer to the question which I proposed for teenagers.
It seems to me that teenagers spend a lot of time of reflecting on themselves, trying to "stand on their own two feet". But truly a purpose in existence cannot make sense without faith in God.