"I did not ask if you believe what MAN says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories . . . legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in GOD. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staaring up at the work of God's hand?
I don't know of too many people that can look up at the Milky Way on a clear night and not get a chill at the awesome vastness of it all. If this is "sensing the divine", yes I feel it. But I have developed an aversion to the word God, because that word has so much anthropomorphism and fanaticism baggage attached to it.