Where does God begin?

For a former fundamentalist this is the hard question. You must realize I was raised on a steady diet of " It doesn't have to make sense, just believe it." and, "God is beyond human understanding". That's the sleight of hand I mentioned earlier. Like when you ask the salesman the important question and he tells you that it's not the important question. Like when you ask an academician a bothersome question and he tells you you wouldn't understand the answer so he won't bother giving it. Like when you ask a politician where the money went and he tells you what you really want to know is how to prevent gays from getting married. In faith good solid critical thinking is called doubt. In my book, that's a virtue.

There isn't much that can hide from critical thinking. Connect the dots, reveal the picture. Remove the foolish, see what you have left. In the cases of Moses and Jesus, when the fantastic is removed so little is left the true believer abandons reason for faith. Some people feel so betrayed they turn from worship entirely. Later I'll suggest a way that reason and worship can function together.

So where do we start looking for God (and by that I mean the one-god-to-the-exclusion-of-all-others variety) ? A long time ago I had a theory. I reasoned that we had to abandon the notion that God somehow miraculously revealed himself to a few key people and the notion resonated in humanity and eventually came to dominated the human spiritual landscape. Again I resort to my mantra: God must make sense or he's impertinent. Like everything else in our lives, a rationale is required.

God doesn't appear on the radar of human evolution, let alone earthly evolution, until the most recent of times. In reference to human evolution it would look like this:

Human language
Clothing
Art ( visual)
Villages
Agriculture
Bread
Beer
Property
Music
The Boat
Writing
Written Law
The Wheel
Long walks alone in the desert
Terms of Divorce
A Troubled Heaven ( to match a troubled earth)
Divine Hierarchy to match Human Hierarchy
One God that shatters all Others ( Just as we crave one opinion to
destroy all others)

Something like that...I imagine.