I believe in god and I like Maher. I think he's great and most of what he says is the honest truth. But than again I have little sympathy for religion, although I respect anyones search for god.
My god isn't some old man with a beard up in the sky who can rain fire and lightening down on us. He's more a great feeling that I can experience. Something like the shivers that can run up my spine at a Flames game, the single mindedness as I build something, the thrill as I do something stupidly dangerous, the peace after a hard days work, the glow I feel when in love or the awe as I've seen my baby born.
The thing is people think this feeling comes from what you are doing, who you are with or where you are but in my experience this feeling is coming from within. I am the one who appreciates. These outside experiences are just triggers and you can learn how you can trigger these feelings for yourself without having to go anywhere or do much of anything.
To me Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, and Krishna were a few of the teachers who taught their people how to do this. The Bible and religion have lost sight of this teaching though.
The more I get into it the better it can get. This experience is much more than what I've felt doing any of the above mentioned things, so I like to share that their is a possibility within you, and for me, it doesn't involve a conflict with science or rationality.
rant over although I hope it's not taken that way.
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