Some Quick Thoughts About God and Religion

My thoughts on religion, more than most want to know.


Let me start by saying that I was raised Jewish. No, I don't look Jewish because I was adopted at birth. I was brought up around Christian neighbors who were mostly Baptist, but there were some Methodist, and Catholics. My mother was Lutheran before she converted to Judaism. I attended a Christian day school for three years and a Jewish day school for four years and a Catholic military high school for four years. My high school was highly tolerant of other religions so we were taught about Mormonism and Islam, as a study.


My point is I have been exposed to a lot of religions and have had the opportunity to study them and observe people practicing them. All which qualifies me for nothing.


I believe in a God. One God who created everything. I find it hard to believe that the right organisms just happened to be on a planet with water, the right gases, and the exact distance needed from a sun that happens to be the exact temperature needed to sustain life. I'm sure someone good at math could explain that the odds are good that this could happen by chance considering the billions of planets and billions of years this has all been around but I'm not buying it. It all had to start somehow and until we know my theory is as good as any other.


I believe that God exist at a level that we will never understand. That our knowledge of the universe and everything in it barely scratches the surface of his creation.

I believe that all the major religions worship the same God. That God probably enjoys being worshiped in more than one way. Why can't we believe he likes variety? We do. In other words most religions could be right.


I believe that people won't be punished because they are not born into the "right" religion. What chance does a child born in North Korea have to find Christ? Would God really send him to hell because of where he was born? I hope not, that would make no sense.

I believe in evolution and creation. If we can plant a seed knowing it will become an apple tree certainly God could create an atom knowing what it become in a billion years. I do not know if God is involved in our everyday life or if he just set it all in motion knowing the outcome.

I believe God has given us free will and a moral code to guide us. That leading a moral life is all that is required of us.

I believe that people read to much into man made ideas and interpretations. These people hijack religion and direct it in a way that could only serve themselves or they become so fanatical that they lose the original concept of their beliefs.

Things I find odd about religion;

That God stopped talking to people about 2,000 years ago

That God had man write the old testament then had man write a new book that almost contradicts everything in the first book.

That great buildings are built to honor God while most religions preach he cares nothing about wealth.

That most people feel they were lucky enough to be born into the right religion. Honestly believing they are one of the chosen for no other reason than being born.

I could go on and on but I think you get the idea of what I believe. Now if someone could please explain it to me.