Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.

[Esquilax]

Serving God doesn't mean we are puppets or don't think. When you work for someone, you decide to serve that person. We're thinking people who make our own choices, and we choose to serve God, and in doing so, to serve others. Many people believe in a specific cause and they serve that cause. Many people serve themselves and it leads to no good for themselves or for anybody else.

Yeah, but if the guy I was serving was making me do so at the end of a knife, by threatening me with a room full of magic fire if I don't serve him, I wouldn't be spending all my time trying to convince myself that that guy must be morally good.

It's not that you don't think, it's your commitment to sculpting your thought processes around an old, demonstrably flawed instruction manual, for better or worse. That willingness to sacrifice your will on the altar of conformity, irrespective of the effects, is what leads me to believe you aren't interested in what your thoughts are, only how close you can make them to the pages of the bible.