Being born and raised Catholic, I drifted away from the church and have not looked back. I can remember when it hit me, any notions about God, but I see it a little differently and could not quote more than a couple of verses from the Bible to qualify this belief, even if you held a gun to my head. When I watch Stigmata, there is a line in that movie that sums it up perfectly: "The kingdom of God is within you, and not confined in mortar and stone." That ties more into my belief in free will and the human notion of free will. Since my wife is Cherokee, she can tell you that they tend to see things more along the lines of man's relationship with nature and universal forces, and although they don't come right out and say "God," they are likely to refer to a higher power as the Great Spirit. From that point, it's a matter of semantics. One of the unfortunate realities of free will is that it allows just as much perversion and evil as it does good, and until man can reconcile that paradigm [for lack of a better term], we are likely never to know or fully understand the concept of a supreme being, no matter how you refer to it.

Amen, but it will always remain that they have free will. Important for us to chose wisely.