What have you been thinking about lately?
It's like Wagner correctly pointed out in Parsifal "Durch Mitleid wissend"... compassion. The ability to feel what others feel, especially pain (that's why in German it is Mitleid..Leid=Suffering Mit=fellow... fellow-suffering).
How can someone vouch for the existence of God in a world that is so full of pain, where your position in society depends on things that are absolutely out of your hands like looks or intelligence or even money. How can there be a world so full of injustice where people have a disease that consists of people not wanting to eat to stay thin (anorexia) when there's so many people in this world with nothing to eat. They can't afford to be anorexic, if they find food they eat it because they don't know when they'll have the chance again.
Mankind has progressed so much in terms of providing people with luxury items that were reserved for loyalty in the past (for example as recently as 500 years ago, washrooms could only be found in a king's castle) yet there is something else that we lack as a people. We have to create problems where there's none. Young people everywhere that can afford anything they want to get now have to fit in society and so they have to be "bad guys" and prove that they are the "real deal". No one is interested in art, music, history anymore. Everybody is just thinking about having a good time and partying as hard as they can. For some reason I see no fulfillment in that and that's why I don't partake in it but a lot of people do.
People think that we are here to have a good time and to party it up. After all we are only going to be here for 80 years or so (if we are lucky) so we are better off enjoying it. I agree with it but life is much more than that. It is about love and living life to the full by expressing one's emotions. The love to our parents, the love we have for our romantic partner, our relatives, etc.
I am not a religious person (although I don't know if I would consider myself an atheist) but I sincerely think that if we were to follow the precepts laid out by that brilliant rebel that lived in the first century AD we would all be better off. It is very simple, Love yourself and love your neighbour. Respect people, animals and things because they all have a purpose on earth. Ignore race, colour, religion, etc. because those are things that DIVIDE us whereas we should be looking for things that UNITE us.
Unfortunately the teaching of that great rebel are most of the time ignored and the things that are the very opposite to his teachings are carried out in his name. Who wants to follow a rebel's teachings if I can get my way by using HIM for my purposes by tainting his name? Who would want to do what that rebel taught us? Who would want to follow Jesus of Nazareth's teachings?
I, despite not being a member of any religion (especially Roman Catholic), do.