Fair enough, Roger. I also am a silly little man. ;-) Seriously, I am. I do think that we all are God, but we haven't actualized it consciously (with a very few exceptions). Some of those few exceptions have founded major religions. The fact that their naive followers fail to understand and apply their teachings is sad, but predictable, is it not?

God is the energy of life in us and the power that we have to think, act, speak, and decide. How we use that energy is entirely up to our personality. Our personality is that which thinks it's separate from God (if we believe in God at all) and from others. It is not truly separate, but it thinks it is, and it acts accordingly. (It's fooled by the fact that it has a separate physical body.) It's like a cancer cell that has no idea its activities are harmful to the whole body that IT is part of.

From that perception of separation comes all harmful action perpetrated by some on others. That separation is what is referred to in some religions as "the fall of man" (from unitive consciousness).

I mean, if I thought you were the same as my own hand or my own eye, I wouldn't attack you, would I? If the suicide bombers realized that they are one in Being with the people around them, they wouldn't blow up the bomb. They would see themselves in the other people. They would have mercy.

It's a great shame that organized religions have often encouraged people to kill one another and be merciless.

I do not claim that either you or I are God realized yet on the conscious level. I say that we are God implicitly...potentially...in our inmost nature....and that whatever goodness comes out of us is a result of that. Whatever negativity comes out of us is a result or our believing we are separate from others and from the rest of creation, just because we happen to be housed in clearly separate physical bodies at this time. Each cell in a body is housed separately too...but they are all one part of a single unity. A cancer cell just doesn't act in accordance with that.