Nonetheless, to put on cynicism as one's outlook and to dismiss Christianity as imperialistic myth fails to see the totality of the picture. Christianity gives a larger, more positive meaning to the failures and horrors of the mundane realm, and for this reason, it serves as more than a temperance and restriction of human behavior and emotions. In being a Christian, one does not need to ascribe to ascetic or apocalyptic practices Christianity also affirms what is inherently good in our lives and in the entirety of God's creation. I know that I fail to live up to the standard that God provides for human life, and I will always continue to do so. Yet, I refuse to allow my continual disappointment and shortcoming determine my outlook as misanthropic or morose because that it is where defeat lies and where Christianity offers hope.
Life is as bleak and pointless, or as promising and meaningful as one chooses to make it.