Admiring God

"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." (Albert Einstein.). And also: "Everyone who seriously pursues science becomes convinced that a spirit, infinitely superior to mankind, is manifest in the laws of the universe" ----- These quotes describe my religion. In fact, many scientists are atheists, but I, like Einstein am not. Like Einstein, I believe in a supreme creative spirit manifest in nature, beyond human understanding, beyond human religion. Many scientists are in fact atheists, but Nonetheless the point Einstein was making bears truth... I, like Einstein, do not worship God, I admire God. I admire the surpassingly magnificent creation of the universe, and it creator, for which the three letter word "God" hardly seems adequate. Einstein used phrases like "the ancient one", and "the old eternal genius who built the world". It is not necessary to be religious to believe in God and to admire its work. It is not necessary, and indeed seems wholly inadequate to fabricate a formal, organized religion, replete with mythology and dogma for the purpose of venerating nature. Nor is it necessary to grovel in supine obeisant, obsequiousness on bent knee to acknowledge one's admiration. Worship is hyper melodramatic, showy, fearful flattery, unworthy of intelligent beings. As Goethe said: "Behold the phenomena, for they are the doctrine." I can neither accept, respect, nor nor admire a contrived who would mandate violence by his created creatures, and require a blood sacrifice to himself to atone for it. By giving beings "free will", while establishing immutable laws of nature, freedom of actin, free will, is strictly limited. God by design creates a world of violent, suffering beings, then, according to Christianity, requires further violence as atonement. Archibald MacLeish said of the biblical God: "If God is God, God is not good. If God is good, God is not God." Again, Goethe: "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, and if our hearts do not tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we will most certainly not learn these things from books, which at best are designed to give names to our mistakes." We can love and admire god's work through our love and admiration of nature, and of each other. Mark twain said: "The Bible contains some noble poetry, clever fables, a vast quantity of obscenity, and no fewer than one thousand outright lies." I couldn't've said it better.