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[quote=Anonymous]I'll preface this by saying that I do believe in God. Sort of.

I was brought up in a catholic family. My grandparents on both sides were very devout and they felt it was important that I got a religious education - which I did, up to a point. My parents are not practicing, so it wasn't important to them one way or another, they let the grandparents take the lead on this issue (and I spent a lot of time with my grandparents as a child). Once a teenager, I started asking the hard questions, like why is there suffering in the world if God is benevolent and omnipotent. The answer I came up with was that if God existed, it could be one or the other, but not both. So I guess I imagined a God more like the Greek gods: well meaning (most of the time), but far from perfect. I could live with that for a while.

Now I tend to think about God more as a life force, or a spark. Maybe the sum total of all souls everywhere. I still believe that something bigger than us exists out there (and this seems to be the conclusion I have to draw from science as well). I don't believe that God created us, but he might have sparked the creation of our universe and then stood back and watched - like a science experiment of sorts. I also think that Jesus was God's son only in the way we are all God's children - we all have something in us that makes us what we are - fallible and imperfect and all. So in a way I do believe in God, but it's my own personal idea of God, not the one most people tend to think about when they say the are believers. I am however a big non-believer in organized religion and I find proselytizing very condescending and insulting. [/quote]

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