My experience is that people of religious faith are all over the board... Many are pew sitters and many others are hypocrites but amongst the religious are also some of the finest human beings I have ever known. I myself am religious and that said find reason to find fault with my own religion...but my faith is un-waivering. I love church and I relish every moment of praise and worship until the preacher starts belting out condemnation of people who do not believe as they believe...or some political agenda...then I am usually looking for the door...

My religion is about loving our neighbor as ourselves, loving a loving God with all of my heart & all of my mind, and my religion is helping everyone I can through love, prayer, & service... giving a hand to and looking out for widows & orphans... Many people who believe as I believe provide millions of hours of their time to those less fortunate than them and often without even a thank you. If it were not for religious charities the world would be a much more hungry and lonely place for the world's poor and powerless... My guess is that religious charities provide 9 out of every 10 dollars given to aid the hungry, sick, hurt & dying people of the world... There are those outside of religions who do the same and I admire those outside of faith even more than those with faith because they have discovered the law of giving and receiving that returns ten fold or one hundred fold what was given....

In a pew on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, or in no pew at all and tutoring an at-risk child on Monday... when we give love...we get love...and that spiritual law works regardless of religion or lack of religion... All roads from love lead back to love...if you just look back and see where you came from... When that road was narrow... perhaps our minds were too narrow to allow our hearts to lead the way... When we did on occasion give with all of our heart... that place in the road is wide enough to allow other to join us.... When the road is widest though, we can look forward and behind and on either side... and love is all we see... When we have condemnation for none, regardless of what our flesh may see, regardless of what our religion or lack of religion may be, then we have arrived in a place where I want to be...