This seems like a good place to post something.
God, without religion, eh? that makes a lot of sense, particularly when seen with the light I have gained by realizations in the past 3 months.
What I perceive to be true:
We live, therefore something caused our existence, also we live on a planet, that also had something cause it's existence, so a mighty being, that is an energy far greater than we can even imagine, caused all creation to occur. That I think covers that pretty well, and if necessary, that energy of creation can be called God, or anything else, I don't think It minds.
Then we come to religion. That is a doozy - Religion is at the root of nigh on every war, most serial killings, and many psycho attacks - leading me to the now obvious realization that religion, of any kind is wrong. Man made, and just plain wrong. I went further, and figured that if it were wrong, then perhaps it was designed to be that way, by some person with a hidden agenda.
I pondered on this for a while, then figured that the followers of a religion, doesn't matter which, are all suffering from some kind of sympathetic neurosis, created entirely by the psychosis that fuels the religion they follow.
To attempt to clarify that train of thought, I will take a while to ramble on about it:
If a person is led, rigidly, by a psychotic person, they manifest aspects of that psychosis, sympathetically, by neurosis - this means that to be led, in any matter, closely, by a psychotic, people tend to mimic the beliefs through nervous emotion.
I have not figured out if the clergy of any religion are afflicted with the psychosis, or just a neurotic follower of the original psychotic.
I have studied religion very closely, for over 50 years. Not to condemn it, but to understand it - I have always known there is a massive Creator, but nothing written, preached or followed by man, makes any sense at all. The Christian Bible, a massive tome of spirituality, mahem and chaos, is very interesting, particularly pertaining to it's early history. It is a fact, undisputed by any scholar, that the bible as is known today, was created after the facts mentioned therein. And those facts were altered three hundred years later, edited by a self proclaimed pagin, who never accepted the faith he so carefully edited.. This is a pretty strong clue showing that the guy did not believe any of the original, and changed it to line up, VERY closely to the pagin faith he happily died believing in.
I could go on to the Islamic tome, but they tend to shoot anyone who says anything about them, so I will only comment that they tend to prove the theory all by themselves.
The problem I am seeing now is very simple - As God has not seen fit to create for us an obvious worship ritual, should we presume He don't want worshipping? Now I am happy to take that path, of non worship, until something comes along, that will change my mind - IT will have to be really good.
This theory of mine has taken a long time in evolving, but I am now comfortable with it. I do welcome the thoughts of anyone troubling to read it.