Belief

 I am forever running into people who say they were brought up this or that religion, but are now atheists or non-believers.  As they tell their story, they acted in very selfish and unloving ways in their past, well still unsettled in their beliefs about Deity or Power.  Then they tell how they recovered a better way of living, becoming much more loving but now a non-believer.  What they don’t believe in and used to believe in is God as an idea, a doctrine, dogma.  But they are now very loving and loyal people.  They believe in love, and God is Love, a verb and not a noun.  I also meet people who say they do believe in God, but are quite selfish and self-centered, focused on money, power, fame, themself.  An idea won’t make you a better, more loving person.  A Power, an energy, will.