Referring to your, "what's the point" question above -- I worked at a company where someone had this sign on their door: "Life is the only game in which the goal is to learn the rules."

I loved that. Probably even more so because it reminded me of "The Greatest American Hero", in which he gets a suit from aliens but loses the instruction book, and has a difficult time controlling the suit. I've had a difficult time controlling this skin suit, quite often.

I feel honored and humbled to have been able to survive through my period of atheism and agnosticism, and returned to reading Scripture. Not saying I know I'll be written into the Book of Life, but had I died while not believing, chances are I wouldn't have been.