Religion - Some thoughts

I have been trying to get myself to write something for sometime now and thought I could get my creative juices flowing through this medium. I will be segmenting the content into subject matter for each separate bit of input.
If you are feeling like commenting, please comment on the content and the way it was written.

Please take into account, that a lot of these are work in progress and may contain altering once I have more information, or may altogether be discarded. I have chosen to start with a controversial issue to begin with and hope that I can add to create a series of subject matters.

Religion - Belief:

Through the past few years I have been going through what might be perceived as a personal form of enlightenment regarding my spirituality and beliefs. I was on the verge of careening over the precipice of atheism but couldn't make the leap. I realized that as liberal as I am, and may become, I had a strong belief in the presence of a divine entity and could not simply discard it. But nevertheless, I saw gaping holes in my chosen faith and was confronted with the age-old dilemma of conflicting with blind faith. I therefore decided that I would actively start researching and analyzing the information being presented. Tough I am still far from my goal, I believe that I have made some ground and the following is what I believe true at this junction of my life:

God (or Allah for those who are picky) exists, but this entity that we may worship is beyond our ability to realize. I do not believe It is in any way a “being” as such. And as the “Angels & Demons” movie pointed out, science is too young a field to compare with religion. But at the same time, because religion is so old it has become susceptible to corruption and misinterpretation. In a nutshell, I will proceed to explain the presence of a divine being within the universe and dimension/s that we occupy with some science that makes sense to me.

Starting off with the atom; the atom is the smallest known tangible common denominator for all matter in the universe. This atom has an electron field (not electrons rotating on an orbit). These electrons cannot be stopped, cannot be frozen, cannot be split, etc… They also exist within this field at all and none of the points simultaneously. This, to me, is proof of divinity, because if something that is physical and tangible is able to achieve such attributes, why then is it such a leap to believe that a certain sentience cannot achieve the same. Additionally, since the electron (which is pure energy subsequently) is within ALL matter, would this not also align itself with the “God is in everything” from the theist religions or the “Everything has a being” from the Buddhist school of thought?

Additionally, it could also explain the miracles from the theist school, if the divine is in the energy of all matter; then the Prophets were granted the ability to manipulate their own energy and the energy surrounding them. An example of this is Jesus walking on water which could be explained that he was granted the ability to repel the energy between himself and the water surface and hence walk above it.

One more point is that if “God” created us in his own image, would it not make more sense that His own image is in we all have the energy that is him though the atoms that we inhabit?

That is all I will say on this subject for now, I obviously have some more things I could discuss, but in the interest of keeping it concise I will leave it at that.

Religion - Comparison:

The Muslim nation is at the same point Christendom was pre-Renaissance. The Muslim nation is full of masses of ignorant blind faith followers who look towards the clergy for all their directions. Refusing to think for themselves and taking the word of the cloth as the divine’s voice on earth. Certain factions are waging “Holy wars” in comparison to the crusades.

For the Christian world, they were saved by the call to reason via the Renaissance, but they only had the Vatican to contend with and oppose in this matter. Whereas the Muslim nation is split between several different factions with widely varying ideologies, and also has to content with international interference.

Religion – Journeys:

The way I look at it is; every person needs to find his tower of truth which leads to a greater spiritual consciousness. This tower is surrounded with a dense forest that as no paths, each person will try and venture in to get to the tower. Some may follow others, some may go alone, and some may choose to walk back. The tower may be found and may not. In my opinion, the journey within itself is important, regardless of reaching the goal (though it has its weight of importance too).

Religion – Materialism:

Many follow the Muslim faith with a reward program in mind. For example, you get X good points if you do a certain action or Y bad points for doing another. There are more good points for praying in a mosque on Friday, this in my opinion is plain stupid. The reason it is better to pray in a mosque is that it creates an opportunity for the community around said mosque to form just that: a community, by getting to know each other on an equal playing ground with no regard to what car or clothes or activity you may be partaking in.

I think the reason there is a “reward system” in the practice of the Muslim faith (and I stress the word practice) is that when Islam was introduced on earth, it was introduced to a society of trading, nomad pagans who needed to have a feel of gain or loss to process the religion in their minds and in actuality has nothing to do with the original teachings of Islam.
Islam should be observed and treated as any other theist belief system, for its spirituality and its contribution to society if practiced correctly and without corruption and self serving objectives.