God, Hashem, Hashem

[steveak]

I've tried believing in God. I'm much happier with the Patriarchs and Matriarchs running things.

[newman]

I've tried believing in G-d. I'm much happier with the Patriarchs and Matriarchs running things.

G_d runs things, like it or not.

[steveak]

Its a matter of opinion,  not fact.

[Shlomo]

Oh ya? Here ya go... these are a few books I own and I think these can set you straight:

The Probability of G-d
A Simple Calculation That Proves the Ultimate Truth
by Stephen D. Unwin
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761526846/

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
By Rabbi Shmuel Waldman
http://www.feldheim.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?item=1-58330-806-7

Permission to Believe (one of my favorites!)
By Lawrence Kelemen
http://www.feldheim.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?item=0-994070-55-8

Let it be said that the rejection of G-d's existence ought to strain man's rational credibility even more. We must then assume that the functioning of the world under the sort of mathematical precision that we can only today fully begin to appreciate is a result of coincidence, and that the intricate coordinate functioning of life, from the very lowest forms to man himself is a matter of chance. Certainly, this requires a blind faith of its own.

-Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin