Some people follow their "horoscopes" or their palm readings obsessively. Others go to church 4-6 times per week in their desire to cement their beliefs within themselves, and in front of others. Some human beings insist that religion is a kind of myth -- to be followed perhaps, but not necessarily excluding the elements of life they really want to participate in. Other human beings accept "fate" or what will be without trying to change it with "prayer" or "meditation."
I for one believe in everyone's right to believe. I believe that some people have deep and abiding faith, even sometimes when science or basic contradictory facts of existence stand in front of them and look them directly in the face. I believe in making mistakes. I believe that most of us are sometimes foolish and make all kinds of faulty judgments. And I believe in God -- or at least the "need for a God" -- someone who is greater than me, and knows more than me, and with whom I am somehow connected.
I am certainly not sure if this God is a "personally involved" kind of God -- the God that interferes with history and fact just because I ask Him/Her to. I don't know if God really exists -- I have the kind of faith that doubts, yet believes in spite of doubts. My meditations and prayers are stated thus: "Dear God, if you exist ... please help.....so and so." I rarely if ever pray for myself -- even though I am sure I need the help. It seems too selfish.
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