The "God of the Gaps" is a fine thing to worship, in my opinion.
I really hate to rain on peoples' parades, but the "God of the Gaps" is the worst thing to worship. We're always filling in those gaps with new information and knowledge. If you want to worship an ever-decreasing pocket of ignorance, that's fine by me, but you should know exactly what you're doing when you do so.
I disagree, it's the best thing. IF you're going to worship or belief in something, which seems somewhat hardwired into the human mind, it should be something that recedes from scientific inquiry instead of getting in the way.
Most organized religion seems to me to be a way of exploiting gullible people for power and money.
Speaking from christianity here, don't know much about others...
I have noticed that sometimes. But those are the really big ones that make a lot of noise. There are plenty of good churches who spend all their money on benefiting the community and the world, but they generally don't parade around that fact, so they generally go unnoticed.
You never hear random acts of kindness on the news, but you do hear corrupt scams alot.
Eh... They do seek out controversy of course. But when there's a disaster, or a happy fluff piece, most of the time some local citizen is thanking God.
Makes sense since most Americans are Christian, and I know I was nervous the one time I was on the news. Humbling thanking God is a very natural reaction. Still, statistically, I'd expect to have seen some other faiths represented. Maybe they were but didn't feel inclined, or safe, to make that public on TV.
Okay okay also! I am SUPER EXCITED because I just discovered a new ancient "heresy" that inspired Catharism! But it was Orthodox!
Catharism is still by far my favorite kind of Christianity, eee... Too bad they were all murdered.
Bogomilism! Yeah ugly name, but it's Greek I guess. Someone's name.
It's somewhat gnostic and, like Catharism, says that humanity was created by The Devil! Though it seems to differ in the details. In Bogomilism, God seems to be somewhat neutral. He created Satan then helped Satan create humanity, then later created Christ who saved humanity. Satan apparently orchestrated the Crucifixion, and... well... Catholicism :/ Dualism is strange and fascinating, with my Baptist background.
Also like Catharism, it focuses on self-purification to foil Satan. Actually avoiding sin instead of accepting it as inevitable and seeking forgiveness. That is VERY interesting to me. I'm not seeing anything about the Cathar reincarnation cycle, though. Not sure what their afterlife concept was.
Mostly just sharing a bit of religious history I found fascinating. But also... Catharism makes way more sense to me than any modern Christianity, and that includes the super vague ones like Unitarianism. Though I have personal problems with infinite forgiveness, I guess.