Church of Unified Truth

** work in progress **
The French philosopher, Voltaire famously said "If God did not exist then man would have to invent him". What did he mean? Nothing, he was a philosopher that's what we do, we generate thoughts that provoke debate and discussion. His motivations seem to stem from an anonymous publication "The Three Impostors" which Voltaire found denied the existence of a divine being. A precept that, for society, was potentially dangerous in that it put into question the "afterlife" punishment of criminals.
The idea was not new as pointed out by the comedian, Lewis Black, when he said that the Old Testament of the Bible was written to force the Jewish people to fly straight and behave, referring to Hell and a vengeful God. Religious texts over the years have been manipulated in order to control its followers.
From my personal experience, I have felt the hand of a divine being. At age 18, I took a motorcycle trip to visit with my Aunt and Uncle, some 100 miles away from my home at the time. Not being the expert rider that I am today, my journey up there was a little scary. I had no idea what the machines limits were and rode with extreme caution. The visit concluded, my aunt, uncle and cousin took time to pray for my safe journey home. Both my aunt and cousin were almost fanatical Christians, my cousin later marrying a preacher. I felt a little embarrassed by the whole thing and at that age could not really have cared less, but I let them do their thing, mounted the machine and headed for home. Nothing happened, but I felt as if I was floating along surrounded by cotton wool, as if nothing could hurt me. Arriving at my destination safe and sound, I pondered the feelings for years. Perhaps there is something to all this after all. As a further reinforcement to the idea that my aunt had discovered something, she died in her sleep from a simultaneous cerebral hemorrhage and heart attack. Bang, no suffering, no pain, just gone. If you have to go, would that not be the way to do it?
The question of whether God exists or not is further complicated when we consider his gender, color, and other attributes, which is confused when the Bible states "God created Man in his own image". It is extremely hard to believe that God is like us. We mortals are limited by what we can see and touch. We only see and hear in narrow frequency bands. There are other frequencies that we cannot, ourselves, detect. Infrared and ultraviolet radiation are two of many. We are also hampered by language and our 3D universe. To think that God has to be something we can see or touch or even describe is retarded. We do not know how many dimensions there are, because we cannot detect them. It has been theorized that the entire universe can be explained using 10 dimensions, then 11. That is not to say there are that many, only that it can be mathematically modeled that way. We need to look at it from God's point of view, a top down approach. By our definition of God, he would reign over everything, whether it is seen and unseen by us. He is everything. He is the One, the unity that unites everything.
This approaches the Taoist philosophy. A simplistic way of looking at Tao is to think of Tao and God as one and the same. Tao translates as "way" or "path", and God is the "way". Prophets have done there best, given the limitations of language, to portray their visions in a way others can understand, but is probably better thought of as something that can never be adequately expressed in words.