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To: Taro who wrote (226552)	3/27/2005 3:17:44 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1573433

If there is a God, and I am too humble to argue about that, then I firmly believe the same God resides over all worshippers. My wife is a Buddhist, I grew up a Lutheran, my kids were groomed in a Catholic kindergarten and finally made their own choice to get baptized at age 15. Well if there is one God, then of course the same God resides over all worshippers. But 80% (or more) of the world's religions are getting the basic practice of worship wrong, unless you think the differences between the world's religions are unimportant. It's also possible to believe that there is one God, but 100% of the current religions are getting the practice of worship wrong. In fact, given that the major religions place their most recent prophet on the planet between 1400 and 4000 years ago, and the various bibles/torahs (what have you) were generally created decades after the various prophets departed, it seems likely that the religion's practices incorporate lots of non-divine, human influenced material. In fact to say that you believe in God probably requires some religious aspect to the creation of the universe. Otherwise you would say "I believe everything was created by some higher power which is beyond my comprehension", but not refer to that power as "God". This would imply there is some being which created everything, but may not have had any morality or purpose in the process. Once you bring God into the question it generally involved morality and purpose, as well as the doctrines established by one (or more) of the world's institutional religions. Otherwise, what exactly do you mean when you say you believe in God?