I use to be an athiest.

I use to believe that there god does not exist, and how religion causes hatred around the world.

But I found a sense of sprituality through my psychedelic journies. I believe there is a god, but it's not how man interprets god.

God to me, is the energy from all of nature, and from within yourself. It's a hard concept to understand, however every single major religion, has reiterated this in their scriptures, but the philosophies have been interpreted and tweaked for so long, the message the originators tried to convey has been lost. It's like a game of telephone if you played it when you are younger. The beginning does not meet the ends.

Intention of religion has been distorted and twisted for personal gain from one man to another. People try to hid behind religion as their reasoning to commit and justify sin. People use religion as a platform to have people listen to their ideas, and claim it's righteous.

Religion is not the cause of hatred. Man is the cause of hatred. Because it's man, not god who injects ideas to people.

People point blame on many things why they commit attorcities, or hate. But it's avoiding the point of truth. The common denominator is hate, the mindset is the same.

I'm a buddhist now. Note that buddhists do not have missionaries, and has spread through those that wanted to find answers to the unsolvable life questions of mankind. They encourage going to learn about other religions and learn their gospel, scriptures, whatever. I choose to believe it, because I believe in my heart, the teachings are true and genuine. But everyone else can choose to believe what they want. I don't remember the last time buddhists were involved in a war in the past 500 years.

The division caused by people is through ignorant views, and thinking errors. Religion is hardly the cause. It's only a platform to hide behind. It's these behaviors of mankind that will continue until people stop hiding behind different philosophies to justify hate. Selfishness and hate is the cause of all our problems.