What Are We?

Throughout history all great thinkers have attempted to understand what the nature of a human being is.  This type of thinking culminated in Christianity with its understanding of a human person in the Catholic philosophers.  In modern times, existentialism replaced this understanding.  Recently a vulgar materialism has taken over (a true decline in culture as all materialist societies self destruct) in which humans are seen as nothing more than raw matter or even nothing more than monetary values.  This sort of idiotic philosophy is taking over the internet in which human life is seen as nothing more than a set of numbers and monetary value.  Ironically many of the people promoting this philosophy seem to maintain that they are religious, although it is obvious that they have no true understanding of religion whatsoever.