^(rephrased from Stephen Hawking's religious views)
I believe in one universal God, which I believe is the powerful deity everyone praises, even as Muslim, or the tribal groups, or even the polytheistic religious groups which revere a god per 'this and that'.
Afterlife is hard for me to believe. I consider all the doctrines in the Holy Gospel as metaphors rather than literal. The "end" is not World's end, but each of our deaths. "Heaven" is our lovely Earth, and this is the only life we have so we should change our twisted acts before our "end", because you are already living in "hell" if you don't change for the better.
For me it doesn't matter if you pray all the time or go to church (I'm a usual mass-goer though, lately) if you don't practice moral values. You can test your moralities when encountered with situation regarding: cheating, gossip/badmouthing others, seeing another person's valuable, initiative to help, etc --Well, you know all these.
One can say that God is our conscience, but I'd rather say that God is in my conscience, and he watches over me. If he watches over me, then he knows what I'm doing and what I'm thinking.
I think this kind of religious view is out of my deep love for this Earth, and all of God's creation, and my hatred from those who dare to destroy its beauty for greed.
There were the days when I hated Christian religion because of the past Crusades and all the invasions "in the name of God" but actually, they had a greedy ambition. The number one rule in the Ten Commandments is "Do not put God's name in vain" and yet, wars happened out of religion. Those invasions led to the "Industrial Revolution", which now destroyed Earth but at the same time, is helping humanity.
Plus, one day, while doing some Catholic practices, a thought just struck me: "Something seems off." I noticed how "too much" we praise Jesus when his motive and teachings are for believing and praising our Father. He wants to lead us to God but somehow Christian practices mainly focus on Jesus and I can't help but notice: "How about God?" Don't start with the matter that God and Jesus are the same. They are, but at the same time they're not.
But now I go to church as usual as I can, (more than once a week), to communicate with God with the 'greatest version of prayer' and translate all the teachings in my everyday life and moral values. I choose to become moral and ethical, and a relationship with God is the nicest thing I have.
