THAT'S the phrase that encapsulates my thoughts on the subject, String.......PERSONAL and PRIVATE.

In point of fact I am, like Thomas Paine, a Deist (or Theist), though I DON'T diss atheism, simply regarding it as another alternative available to those who wish to choose it.

While I believe in a God (Supreme Entity, Creator, call it what you will), I am not sufficiently arrogant to believe that mine is the only possible truth.

Be that as it may, I communicate with MY God directly, and receive my responses the same way.

I neither need, nor want, a bevy of men in black frocks to interpret my requirements and intercede to persuade HIM to give ME what THEY think I should want.

Nor do I see a need for a massive building erected from the sweat and toil of working men, and paid for with money extorted from a population, most of whom might have felt, at the time, that they were forgotten by God.

These edifices were built more for the glorification of the builders and the clergy than for the glory of God.

If, and it's a very big if, I ever were to subscribe to one of these "religions", it would be Buddhism, simply because it is built on a premise of RESPECT, for life, for others, and for oneself.

DonT.