David wrote:

I find anybody who functions from a religious center a little weird.

David, There are probably a thousand ways to reply to your above
statement but I'll simply let you read the thirty-eighth chapter of Job
from the Amplified Bible. This only begins to answer why one SHOULD
make God Almighty and the Lord Jesus Christ the very Center and Core of
their lives and the Director of ALL of their paths!

Chapter 38

THEN THE Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said,

2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? [Job
35:16.]

3 Gird up now your loins like a man, and I will demand of you, and you
declare to Me.

4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Declare to
Me, if you have and know understanding.

5 Who determined the measures of the earth, if you know? Or who
stretched the measuring line upon it?

6 Upon what were the foundations of it fastened, or who laid its
cornerstone,

7 When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted
for joy?

8 Or who shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth and issued out
of the womb?—

9 When I made the clouds the garment of it, and thick darkness a
swaddling band for it,

10 And marked for it My appointed boundary and set bars and doors,
[Jer. 5:22.]

11 And said, Thus far shall you come and no farther; and here shall
your proud waves be stayed? [Ps. 89:9; 93:4.]

12 Have you commanded the morning since your days began and caused the
dawn to know its place,

13 So that [light] may get hold of the corners of the earth and shake
the wickedness [of night] out of it?

14 It is changed like clay into which a seal is pressed; and things
stand out like a many-colored garment.

15 From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is
broken.

16 Have you explored the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the
recesses of the deep?

17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the
doors of deep darkness?

18 Have you comprehended the breadth of the earth? Tell Me, if you
know it all.

19 Where is the way where light dwells? And as for darkness, where
is its abode,

20 That you may conduct it to its home, and may know the paths to its
house?

21 You must know, since you were born then! Or because you are so
extremely old!

22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the
treasuries of the hail,

23 Which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of
battle and war? [Exod. 9:18; Josh. 10:11; Isa. 30:30; Rev. 16:21.]

24 By what way is the light distributed, or the east wind spread over
the earth?

25 Who has prepared a channel for the torrents of rain, or a path for
the thunderbolt,

26 To cause it to rain on the uninhabited land [and] on the desert
where no man lives,

27 To satisfy the waste and desolate ground and to cause the tender
grass to spring forth?

28 Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

29 Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who
has given it birth?

30 The waters are congealed like stone, and the face of the deep is
frozen.

31 Can you bind the chains of [the cluster of stars called] Pleiades,
or loose the cords of [the constellation] Orion?

32 Can you lead forth the signs of the zodiac in their season? Or can
you guide [the stars of] the Bear with her young?

33 Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their
rule upon the earth?

34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that an abundance of
waters may cover you?

35 Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say to you, Here we are?

36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts [or in the dark clouds]? Or
who has given understanding to the mind [or to the meteor]?

37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the
[water] bottles of the heavens

38 When [heat has caused] the dust to run into a mass and the clods to
cleave fast together?

39 Can you [Job] hunt the prey for the lion? Or satisfy the appetite
of the young lions

40 When they couch in their dens or lie in wait in their hiding place?

41 Who provides for the raven its prey when its young ones cry to God
and wander about for lack of food?

The amplified Bible, containing the amplified Old Testament and the
amplified New Testament. 1987. La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.