I was raised in a religious Christian home - my father and many of my uncles and cousins were ministers. This left me, like many other preacher's kids highly skeptical towards organized religion. When you see the pettiness of the church politics or spend a sunday morning helping cut up the wonder bread for communion a lot of the mystery goes away. I do not now consider myself a Christian, but i miss the community & support that belonging to a community based faith can give. I guess my closest concept of God is a force of nature. When I see the beauty and symetry that exists throughout nature, I have to believe that some higher power had a hand in its creation. So while I am firmly an evolutionist - I still think there is a spiritual force beyond the realm of what science can explain. When I was little, my mother who was deeply spiritual would tell me that the sound of the wind in the trees was God talking. I still think of that when I hear wind today. I don't believe nature is god exactly, but I guess it's more that I find the expression of god more in nature than in any where else. I also find god in the kindness of people who help others, for no reward it impliess an interconnectedness of spirit that is greater than man alone.

--splitimage