Religions have appropriated God-and this seems to be the most serious problem of our times.

These days, religions have become types of sects, closed groups that tend not to acknowledge 'outsiders'. The religious feel that they are God's spokespersons to the faithful, and the faithful regard themselves as the most holy, the most correct. Religions, Karen Armstrong says, "define doctrines, erect barriers, establish borders, and segregate the faithful