Reply #6: Line from the movie Prophesy:

[flamin lib]

Arch Angel Gabriel to a mortal,"The only thing you can know is that you can't possibly know . . ."

If there is a God and if He created the universe which is too vast for my human mind to conceive, it follows that God is too vast for humanity to conceive.

Therefore, any attempt to explain God is necessarily an attempt to make the un-knowable knowable. Religion is a diminution of God to a concept that the human mind can accept. It is nothing but a cosmic construct that makes the believer comfortable with things too vast for Mankind's current mental capacity.

Having come to this conclusion I have constructed my own construct that explains what I see and feel. It is mine and mine alone and it isn't Truth, only a way of looking at the cosmos and feeling comfortable with it.

Any belief system embraced by others is OK with me as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. However, if your concept of God allows you to hate, hurt or disrespect others I think you should re-evaluate your cosmic construct.