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This will sound more mocking than I intended, but I'm sincerely curious:

Do you ever laugh to yourself and marvel at the remarkable coincidence that, of the hundreds or thousands or belief systems and non-believing philosophies in the world, you just happened to luck into the correct one?

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No.  I think that all religions are just man's way to try and organize and make sense of something that is incomprehensible.  I told my son that the images we make in religion are like the crayon drawings a preschooler makes of his mother, they're rude approximations of the truth, with some big holes (ever notice that many preschoolers leave off the arms and torso, so they're people look like ATAT walkers from Star Wars?) and oversimplifications (mom is not made of just two colors) and bizarre interpretations (I once had a student draw a person and then next to them a blog which they told me was "her brain"), but there is also truth in the drawings, because of the emotional meaning the artists attach to them.

So, I celebrate and pray to a God that resembles the God that my parents pray to, because it's the closest to the truth I can come, and because I find comfort and meaning in what is familiar, but I also think there's just as much truth in a Hindu's understanding of deity, or a Catholic's understanding of deity, or a Muslim's understanding of deity (all religions that I don't happen to adhere to).

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