Diana I don't even think its a matter of faith. People think of themselves as Christian, Jewish, Muslim - people who would never dream of picking up a religious text or attending their church, as long as there was something decent on the tv to watch. It's more tradition than anything else. Human beings, being what they are, by and large they turn them into a decent tradition.

Really as long as God stays like that in your life, you have some chance of remaining well balanced.

Much better that than taking all those series of demands made by men thousands of years ago seriously. that's when you get people putting bombs under doctors cars and driving planes into buildings.