Are you a spiritual person or a religious person ? Could you be just spiritual and not follow any religion ? If every religion has its "own" God, who is God's superior (boss) ? There are Atheists, Agnostics, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists etc. - but what about those who believe in God and are spiritual but don't want to follow any of the ill-fitting-for-the-current-time religions ? If Atheists are Non-God people, why not have a name for non-religious people ? Why aren't non-religious people coming out of the closet and why is that only atheists making all the noise ? And why are atheists itching to disprove religious/god-ly people ?
I hope you understand these are mostly rhetorical questions. We should have the freedom for being spiritual (or not), but not the freedom of religion. Yes, I think it is necessary to remove that "freedom" clause for the staunch religious people. Take for example Warren Jeff, religious leader of FLDS Church - he is a pedophile, sex offender, rapist and a creature not fit to be called human. Because of the "religious freedom" clause our judicial system could not bring him to trial for decades. So many people, especially children, suffered under his religious leadership - all in the name of religion. Take the example of Muslim jihadists or the Christian evangelists (like Norway's Anders Behring Breivik) or the fight between Israelites and Palestinians- everything in the name of religion! Have you noticed these religious fanatics are the ones who bring suffering and pain to everybody around them ?
If we remove tax shelter for all the religious groups, probably we don't need to fight anymore about taxing the rich and uplifting our economy today. There is no point in hoping for all religion to co-exist in "harmony"; either ban the religion or at least make a law to not pay attention to any religion and not to give any "special" status for any of the religious sects.
Religion, when it was born = interpretation of God + culture + habitat
The same religion NOW = convoluted interpretation of the original religion to gain power and control
I believe you can perceive and embody your spirituality however you like, but let go of the religion; for religion is obsolete for the current time. If you want to understand the path carved by the founders of a religion - and in turn question and understand the God, then read those ORIGINAL works by the founders. No one religion has got everything right - so you probably need to read all of them.
