Glad someone wrote something like this. Honestly, I haven’t heard this point made before.

I’m a religious person, but I could make the same argument about my own belief.

There are ancient ways to believe in God, ways that emerged before modern science, which now seem ridiculous. We know that the underlying nature of God, if such a thing exists, is not a muscular old man with a beard, for instance.

God is more mysterious and sublime than that. In the words of Joseph Cambell, this concept is beyond “thingness”. So religious people should have some humility about the subject, and acknowledge that we do not know what God is, and that knowing such a thing is impossible. All we can do is try our best, and if we feel comfortable doing so, pray to Whoever or Whatever is out there. In other words, be humble. That will allow us to meet open-minded non-believers on some middle ground, and realize that we’re not that different.