[MellySingsDoom]

^^^Ultimately, if there is a "God", it lies within every one of us - it's our own spirit, our soul. A presence that can be used for compassion or destruction, and presence that requires us to be responsible/caring/nuturing to our own "God".

Mostly Harmless - you own personal "theology" is admirable; however, I would argue that what you feel runs counter to what you decide to believe - these are two different things for me. Christianity, from the 6th Century (with the imposition of the Holy Roman and Orthodox empires), has been deliberately and consistenly dogmatic (there's plenty of evidence now to suggest that much of the original collection of Bible "stories" were tampered with even at it's inception...), and the reading of the Bible has been (whether Catholic, Protestant, Methodist, Evangelical etc) by and large very controlled and restricted. This is one of my issues with Christianity in general - it's a political theology (compare with Buddhism, for example), always has been, and whatever good insights that can be gleaned from it are far outweighed by the overall message: BELIEVE. (An imperative command, no "may" or "could" here. I honestly can't see how an fundamentally individual interpretation of the Bible is possible without also facing the risk of being excommunicated from the Christianity branch that you may belong to...