Everyone I know is unhappy. Everyone I know is stressed to the point of sickness. Everyone I know has an extremely pessimistic view of the future. Even people who have been done well in recent years seem to know that progress is unsustainable.
Everywhere I look I see people who are cold and jaded, people who's hearts have become hardened by the cruelty of modern life. It's especially true for the women. College age girls have been abused by the world, unprotected by the men in their lives. It's just sad. The men tend to take it on the chin but there's no real happiness or fulfillment there either. Many waste away playing video games. They give up on the dream of having a wife and kids and a home of their own. Some work dead-end jobs just to survive, even though they'd quietly prefer not to.
I wouldn't say I'm being overly negative here. Everything's subject to change; but this is what I see every day, over and over again. Humanity is being tortured by this system. We truly weren't meant for this.
Christianity is not about a historical event. It is knowing the one true living God and having a personal relationship with that God who created you and wants what's best for you but you have to seek Him, not things. Prior to Christ, every god was distant, aloof, and unknowable. The Christian God asks us to be His children! Not mere creatures or things. The God of all creation wants nothing more than for you you seek and love Him, so He can bestow His gifts upon you.
It's NEOBBA...
Paul himself, writer of most of the Newer Testament, stated IF Christ is not raised, we are the biggest fools ever.
I'm not talking about Christianity itself, I just mean the form of it most people are familiar with. It seems like the way Christianity is taught makes it seem irrelevant for a lot of people. It's gotten very watered down and also not intellectually rigorous enough to compete with secular ideas.