If God was responsible for nature, and nature is responsible for all living things – Wouldn’t Nature itself be God?

Regardless of your faith, we can all agree that “God” is “Truth,” right?  And if God is the center of  most religions, it’s contradicting for more than one religion to exist.  That would insinuate that there is more than one “Truth.”

Yet prejudices and wars between different cultures are born from religion because one has to be better than the other. And so we ironically engage in the competition of religions in hopes that we become like God.

The most reassuring concept is this idea that there is a higher power that gives our lives purpose.  The question is, without religion what is it that makes people  different from each other?  

And if not, what do Jesus, Buddha and Allah have in common?  How about the spirit that exists behind our deities?

No matter what religion you practice, there’s a sense of spirituality that defines your religion.  I believe this spirituality connects all of us to a source greater than ourselves, and has always existed before the construction of any religion.

If we are all created in God’s image, as the Bible would suggest, then it would make sense to picture ourselves as similar to a glass of seawater while God is the ocean.  No matter what container you decide to fill up with seawater, it makes no difference when you dump the water back into the ocean.

Same goes for us humans.  We all need the necessities like food, water and shelter to survive.  And we all gather our necessities from the natural earth.

What if God was actually the earth and the nature that surrounds us?

If to be more like God was to be more like the earth that has existed before any one of us –to be more like the world that we spend our entire lives trying to understand – then if we tuned into the nature of our world, we would be tuning into our source, the natural source that creates all things.

What’s scary is when we humans try to reinvent the wheel of what’s natural. We destroy plants. We pollute our air and our water. We kill and take life.  And more importantly, we try to create life through artificial imitation.  In other words, we try to play God.  Lest we create monsters of ourselves, destroying nature in the process.

In many ways, religion allows us to avoid taking responsibility for our actions against nature.  And naturally, Nature flips us on our heads every time. I believe that if we can save our planet, and love the nature of our world rather than the religion of humans, we will be closer to God than we could ever imagine.