[Altair]

Perhaps the problem with most organized religion is that God is portrayed as something "other" than what we truly are..."so disconnected"

I mean, I can totally relate to what you are saying. Your thoughts are sound and logical. It seems to me that the only one we need to believe in is ourself. Afterall, it's you there all the time, watching over, listening in, living. Perhaps the "God" that is so praised and preached is really nothing more than the life we are individually feeling and ultimately sharing with one another.

In any event, if there is such a thing as "eternal life" who would you be living it for? In the end, who do you serve? Whom are you faithful to?

Connect to the living one, the one inside us all, the one whose existence you cannot deny.