I KNEW BY THE TIME I was eight years old that I was not religious, despite my Baptist grandmothers, who would've converted me, had my parents not had my back, and shielded me from them. Mom and dad wanted me to pursue my own religious path, make my own decisions without coercion or influence, and it paid off. I am an openminded pantheist, for whom Jesus is a hero, not a God or savior. Even as a child I wondered about the fantastical biblical version of reality, how it seemed to conflict with science and sense and observable reality. I still do. As Goethe said: "It is beyond me how anyone can believe that God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal itself to us, if our hearts do not tell us what we owe ourselves and others, then we will most certainly not find it in books, which at best are designed only to give names to our mistakes." There are several hundred, at least, Christian denominations, and as a child I wondered: "which one does the Christian God prefer, of which Christian denominatin is God, if he exists?" I finally decided that he, the christian God, does not exist. Ghandi, who hated being called "Mahatma", which roughly means "reverend", and preferred being called by his given name, "Mohandas", said: "God has no religion". Richard Feynman said: "I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned". Science admits that it doesn't have all the answers, and only promises to try. Science never gives up trying to find truth, and humbly admits its limitations. We should honor those who seek truth, but beware of those who claim to have found it. Science constantly changes, improves itself, admits its own mistakes, and seeks to correct them. Religion, all religions, proclaims themselves perfect, possessed exclusively of absolute, inviolable truth. As Einstein said: "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." This statement is an admission of the limitations of science, and an acknowledgement of the spiritual nature of reality. Religion falsely claims to have all the answers, answers which cannot be questioned. To acknowledge that a religion cannot answer all questions is the death of the religion, renders it useless, impotent, and thus this acknowledgement cannot be allowed. Or, as Thomas Paine wrote: "All religions are human inventions, established to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit". And, again, Einstein: "My religiosity consists in humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit which reveals itself in what little we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. I cannot conceive of a personal God who would sit in judgment over creatures of his own creation. Morality is of the highest importance, for mankind, but not for God". God has no religion. God is revealed to us through our study of nature, through science, not religion. We know very little about God, but we are learning.