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Hi Jock
That's my question!
Who / what is God to you?
If you didn't have a priest, imam, rabbi, vicar to serve as 'intermediary' would your relationship with God be the same?
If you didn't have a church, synagogue, mosque, temple in which to meet others, if you didn't have a prescribed form of 'service' through which to offer love, request forgiveness, celebrate joy? If you had no Jesus, Mohamed, Moses to emulate and follow - what then is your personal relationship to God?
Do you (and I mean everyone not just Jock) have a need for the community and ritual that an established religion provides? And, whether you do or not, do you percieve that even without that, you have a personal relationship with God which trancends all of that?
Or is your perception of God one which has been prescribed by your 'church' and something that without those guidelines you would find difficult to quantify?