Do you believe in God?

Its what all life boils down to isn't it? Still I find the idea of "believeing" to be confusing. Whether I believe in Him or not, God exists because others believe it. In the same way that it is impossible to say that there is only one God, while we oppress or ostracie those who believe differently.

Here's how it is, Pilgrim. Look at mankind from God's perspective. We've gone and spread out all over the world and evolved cultures that are distinctly different from each other. All of these cultures still show a awareness of the Spirit and for God, as with your children, it doesn't matter what you call Him, or what rituals you use to worship Him as long as you do. You are even welcome to invent a ritual or two of your own as long as it is sincerely done, because the relationship between you and god is as personal as it gets. It doesn't matter which path you have found to God, you will have been guided by the accident of the culture you were raised in, and taught the language and name. You will have been taught the same ethics, though moral values differ (but that's another conversation)

Unfortunately, the relgious structures are as susceptible to greed as the political structures are, and that has resulted in a possessiveness and a territorial claim to God that has nothing to do with his spirit. So I have always seperated the Faith of the acolytes from the religion that guides them, (often to selfishly meet it own ends)

I can go on and on, Pilgrim, but I will leave you mull over what I've said and discover the wholeness of God by yourself (much more gratifying than being told). It is impossible not to believe in God. It would be accurate to say that you have no faith in God, but as you are talking about Him, you have to admit to His existence.