I have investigated different religions. They had one thing in common. They all asked you to submit to a higher power. Usually it was a person that represented that higher power.
The hierarchy of the religious institution starts that way. One person claims insight and others follow (I would submit blindly). The submission to an ultimate higher power seems to be a necessity for many people. It seems that some people require a kind of parental figure all of their lives. I felt that I had to grow up and assume my own responsibility for myself. I found that you didn't have to be religious to lead a moral and ethical life. In fact, much of what we know of morality pre-dates the Judeo-Christian religions.

Now, theological questions don't interest me that much. I don't find them useful except as an index to how people behave in history or culture. Other than that, I see no value to religion. There are many good people who are religionists and I want to get along with them so I usually don't discuss theological questions with them.

I am interested in a truthful quest for knowledge based on evidence and fact.

I find no comfort in believing in a made-up system of religious dogma. I certainly object to having it being interjected into government.

Frank Hamilton