Interesting article

lf the ultimate purpose of human existence is the at­tainment of the Beatific Vision, and if we have a culture which prohibits all official and many cultural acknowledgements of that purpose, we have a culture which denies that purpose. And in its place the culture puts—for nowhere does nature so bitterly abhor a vacuum as in this question of the meaning of life—the atheistic pursuit of happiness in this world.

That was my first point. My second is that this atheistic culture is also dead.

That from Maclin Horton's article "Nothing at the Center".

Check it out.