Is there a path in life? Most people are driven to get somewhere. But where? Do they know where they are going or how to get there?

The purpose of material life is to overcome sin. This purpose is evident in Christ's teaching, in necessity, in results and in the characteristics of matter.

Overcoming sin means operating by a standard of rationality. It means replacing destructivity with constructivity. It means alignment upon objective reality rather than conflicts with objective reality created by subjective motives. If sin doesn't exist, or doesn't matter, or is someone's opinion, why all of the irrationality and destructivity?

Everywhere, it is observable that rationality, constructivity and objectivity are being sacrificed to other purposes. What purposes? The purposes are subconscious. People are taught to not rationally evaluate their purposes but to react in ways which seem to be in their own self-interest. Self-interest is not evaluated; it seems automatic.

This automaticity does not account for misdirection in life. If, for example, the Mafia learns to commit crimes more effectively and not get caught, it might seem to them to be in their self-interests, but it results in more crime.

Another example of misdirection in life which seems to be in one's own interest is the conservative drive to add religion to schools and government. Their logic is that religion is good, and therefore, it should be everywhere. It's not rational. There are necessary reasons for keeping religion out of schools and government. But conservatives refuse to accept such rationality.

Why are some persons so pig headed that they won't be rational? It's because they are driven by forces which tell them that rationality is part of the problem rather than the answer. Rationality creates interference with their purposes, so it must be bad.

There is a path in life which is opposed to rationality. It is based upon what seems right or feels right. It is aligning upon self rather than objective reality. It is subjective rather than objective.

Most basically, sin creates the subjective path of what feels right in conflict with rationality. But it is also a path which is learned. People have a tendency to do what others do and to align upon consensus as a source of security. How could all of those people be wrong?

Power makes sin feel right, while poverty makes morality feel right. If people are stuck in a feel-right path in life, they can only find their way where morality feels right, which is poverty. Theoretically, rational persons could find their way where there is power and affluence, but they would need to be moral and rational. It is a chicken and egg phenomenon. It takes morality and rationality to determine the value of morality and rationality.

This is why Christ said poverty is the path to perfection (Mat 19:21). It allows people to find their way without having to do an analysis. People in poverty need to solve problems, which requires rationality and all elements of constructivity. What feels right and what is rational and moral are the same things in poverty.