There is a simple and important difference between religion and 'God' that is lost on those who think their religion is the only way to understand the meaning of the word "God."
The three major monotheistic religions all proclaim God to be infinite. Think about that in terms of numbers. Since we can use numbers to count to infinity, any single number a person can imagine is equally as valid as any of the other infinite number of numbers a person can think of in counting to infinity.
The three major monotheistic religions, however, insist that only the way they define such an "infinite" God are true, even though they all contradict each other. One proclaims God is only even numbers, for example, while the other proclaims God is only odd numbers, and the third claims God is an infinite number of fractions, of which there are more than whole numbers.
What about negative numbers? Negative numbers like -42 are the opposite of positive numbers, so, even though there are as infinite a number of negative numbers as positive numbers, the three major religions want us to think of those as "the devil."
God created all of these numbers, as these religions see it.
But by asserting that God is only one set of numbers and not another, the three major monotheistic religions transform the truly infinite into something less than infinite.
In setting parameters of what God is and is not, in other words, religions crucify the infinite concept of "God" upon the cross of its brand of parameters. Those parameters become dogmas which operate like a cross upon which a religion hangs its tailor made God like a scarecrow.
Put another way, the difference between religion and God is that the former is always a finite man-made means of crucifying the infinite nature of the latter, and by doing so, transform what is equally accessible to each person's imagination into something that can only be purchased with time and money from those selling their particular brand of the word "God."
Who does this? Those so afraid of judgement and ungrateful for being alive in the moment that they hope to live forever in an afterlife in which they will finally be free of all their fears, as much of their fears of others who think of an infinite God in numbers different from their own as the fear of being tortured for all eternity for failing to condemn those differences as their religion requires (even though God created those differences just as much as he created all those infinite number of numbers).
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