If that’s the case then I apologise. Perhaps I’ve read too quickly and with an inappropriate understanding. Sometimes, when an issue is one that absorbs me, as this does, I speak too soon. That’s not a good thing to do and I’m working on fixing it but, clearly, I’m not there yet.

However, may I just say that, as you of course will realise, there is a difference between accepting that there is a ‘God’ or that a god or gods may exist, and believing in them, i.e. having no doubt about it or simply having blind faith in human records of what they have supposedly said or commanded.

For myself, I accept that at least right now, we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of any god, let alone a single ‘God’. I am also aware, though, of the harm done by the majority of collectives of those who do ‘believe’ in both the existence of this or these supposed entities and human constructions of what they supposedly expect or have commanded of us.

Such harm has existed from the earliest days of mystics, prophets, pharaos, and others claiming divinity or direct connection to it and, in more modern times, the collectives of believers known as religions.

For me, even if any of these entities or a single supreme one actually exists, I cannot accept that they are other than, at the very least, capricious and more seemingly, actually malicious.

Once more, I apologise if my comments have reflected a misunderstanding of what you wrote.