Okay, so you admit that you are not knowledgeable and that there are things you just don't know but yet DO know that there is a god-like power that controls the universe? It just doesn't add up. Doubting should lead one to NOT believing in god if anything, not believing in him!
If you're waiting for god to reveal some kind of divine knowledge to you, I have a strong feeling you're going to be waiting for a loooong time. Until the day you die most likely. Heck, I myself have prayed for many things in my life and not and single one of them ever was granted. Similarly, I have made many birthday wishes when blowing out the candles on my cake and most of them have not come true either. The light of birthday candles seem equally as impotent as the Light of the Lord in this business of wish granting!
But let us not doubt the powers of the Saved just yet. They could prove useful. For example, I'd love to get some advice from those people who have a "Personal Relationship With Jesus Christ" because let me tell ya, there's a lot of folks I'd like to have a "close personal relationship" with, but whom I have never seen in person, and who for all intents and purposes are about as palpable as Christ to me. Like Laetitia Casta for example. Now, I have only seen pictures of her and read stories about her and I believe she does exist, but at the same time I have not perceived her physically. So how do I go about having a personal relationship with this woman? You faithful folk have some mad phat skillz if you claim to converse with the Almighty, so I am wondering if you've got any tips for those of a more, shall we say - corporeal persuasion? I mean, if there's people who can hang with JC Himself I'd think that hooking me up with Ms. Casta should be a walk in the park, right!?
Religions are created by man's search for the truth.
So...searching for the truth means making stuff up? So the truth is
created, rather than observed and tested? Religous 'truth' is indeed an invention, a fabrication, a creation of Man. Unfortunately that tends to negate it being Truth at all.
As usual, Mencken says it better than I can:
"Christianity, for all its wounds, is not likely to die; even its forms will not die; the forms, indeed will preserve what remains of the substance. Of all religions ever devised by man, it is the one that offers the most for the least money to the average man of our time. This man may be very briefly described. He had enough education to make him view all religions somewhat critically, to make him competent to weight and estimate them, particularly in terms of their capacity to meet his own problems--but not enough to analyze the concepts underlying them. Such an analysis leads inevitably to agnosticism; a man who once reaches the point of examining religions as psychological phenomena, without regard to the ostensible authority, always ends by rejecting all of them. But the average man is incapable of any such examination, and his incapacity not only safeguards his religion but also emphasizes his need of it. He must have _some_ answer to the maddening riddle of existence, and, being unable to work out a logical or evidential answer, he is thrown back upon a mystical answer.
This mystical answer is religion. It is a transcendental solace in the presence of the intolerable. It is a stupendous begging of questions that nevertheless disposes of them. Of all such answers Christianity is at once the simplest and the most reassuring. It is protean and elastic; it has infinite varieties; it has comfort both for the man revolting despairingly against reason or congenitally incapable of reason, and for the man whose capacity for reason stops just short of intelligence. It is, at its best, a profound inner experience, a kind of poetry that is lived--call it Catholicism. It is, at its worst, a game of supernatural politics--call it Methodism. But in either case it organizes and gives a meaning to life. In either case it soothes the man who is too weak to stand up single-handed against the eternal and intolerable mysteries."
