Controversial topic!!! - What is god?

[PollyannaFlower46]

I was raised Jewish. My parents sent me to Sunday and Hebrew School, and forced me to be Bats Mitzvahed, even though I had told them I did not believe in God and didn't want to go through with it.

I've known from a very young age that I didn't believe in God, although I do admit that in the past year I've tried to find God again because the idea of God seems to bring such comfort to people. I remember after September 11 especially people finding comfort in their religions and wishing that I could find some comfort in mine, but even though I wanted to, I couldn't believe in something that just made no sense to me.

I think God is an idea that was created during a time of crisis and anarchy that was used as a way to control the masses. Now that we have laws and a fear of punishment by our peers, rather than a spiritual punishment, God has all but out stayed "his" welcome. People who know I don't believe in God always ask me to explain to them how things got here, but I know I can't do that....but I do know that God and organized religion have perverted the world in too many ways for them to be good things.

I don't believe there can be a God when there is all this destruction, etc. around us. Someone who is supposed to be so good, would not allow "his people" to live in a world like this.