1.)What makes today gods different to any of the roman gods who we know are not real?
because a book says so

i believe in a higher power... but i do not believe in any religion (or ones that i know of atleast) that are present today.. i don't believe there is some being capable of setting rules, or punishment for not following them...

the whole idea of christianity to me is just ridiculous..

i believe in karma... do to others as you'd have them do to you.. and...
whatever you do eventually comes back to you... you do good deeds out of the goodness of your heart, and eventually you will be rewarded for it (that's not to say however you can do good things just expecting something good to happen, that more or less goes into greed, and greed almost always lies in darkness...) do bad to others, and you will recieve bad as well...

i just try to live a wholesome normal life for the most part...