>>2423253 (OP)I arrived at these conclusions myself without giving it some pretentious and gay title. Grappling with the infinite improbability of existence in a world with things like love and music and contrasting that against the fact that horrible things happen to good and innocent people naturally leads to the conclusion that God exists but is not at the wheel. In fact, for love to be meaningful it cannot be forced, therefore if God intervenes in his creation there is no free will and it is not truly creation. That said, I am a Christian. I feel the tenants of Christianity must be divine in order to be upheld, so I will concede the religion is purely philosophical, nor will I rule out the possibility that Christ was the divine providence of a Deist God. I see far more value in Christianity than re-inventing some luke-warm version of gaytheism. The bible has plenty of verses cautioning Christ's followers against the will of the church and the perils of intellectual institution is well-trodden soil. At the end of the day, live your life to please God and you will be rewarded with a rich existence, whether or not he is real.