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"I don't ever remember making up a higher power"
You didn't have to, someone already had, then told you all about it.
"I always believed in God"
This is an odd statement to me, when did you even learn of the word, let alone the concept, and where did it come from. Did you believe in something or were you told to.
"Beliefs/Religion is an attempt on our part to understand what far above our understanding."
Perhaps an attempt to explain, but not to understand, there is a big difference. Understanding requires learning, religion is a stagnant idea that even attempts to claim control of future learning by dismissing anything unrelated to an established belief or contrary to it. Which is not learning, which is not understanding.
"It is not correct or incorrect"
If it makes factual claims, than it is subject to being incorrect.
"but this was not the intent."
It may not have been the intent of honest people first gathering to give thanks and enjoy a common "belief" in ancient history. But by the time the major religions were established, control was the game.
"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"
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