Therefore I Say I'm Not Religious.
So I stated my truths are …. that I am playful and serious but not religious. I got the impression that you all thought that I was very religious or some what religious.  

So I guess I need to explain how I find myself saying that that's a lie. I'm not religious.  It may surprise you, well maybe not but I was raised a Catholic. I was raised in an extended Catholic family all my family members were Catholics too!  I went to a Catholic grammar school, a Catholic high School and even a Catholic college.
I actually had a wonderful experience at all of those educational institutions. Once I was a older and a family man I started looking around and became an Episcopalian for a while. I read and listen to theologian the teachings about spirituality.  Years later watching TV  I heard this man. His name was Dr. Gene Scott. He was the pastor of a church in Los Angeles. 
He was teaching on the Giza Pyramid, one of the 10 wonders of the world.  Well I was hooked. This is the Gospel In Stone. Dr. Scott broaden my education on more topics than I could list. Dare I say I realized religions,view and teaching about God is much to small, unscientific and very narrow..
The scope of his lectures including the Bible, Ancient History, Archeology, Anthropology and more that could be named. 
There are many religions but in the main these include Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism. These Organized religion are based a belief system that has large numbers of followers with a set of rules that must be followed to live a good moral life or to be SAVED. 

The following Bible references took on new challenges and meaning..

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” WOW this makes His Creation, us so much greater than we can conceive as we live in a very solid reality dimension.

The declaration in the Original United States Constitution coupled with the above Bible reference opened me to deeper heights of spirituality and understanding about who I am and my relationship with the world we birth into.

Constitution stated quote God created us “that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,”

According to Mr. Thomas Jefferson, it is a self-evident truth (or, if you prefer: a “sacred and undeniable truth”

This is one of the most memorable and yet controversial statements in English prose. Memorable it has become due to its striking simplicity. Controversial? It shouldn’t be. Jefferson is writing to the Americans of 1776; but his words also apply to Americans of 2025. A truth is a truth.

In 1776, Jefferson’s was a claim few would dispute or even take much notice of; it expressed an idea that had been “hackneyed or commonplace about” in America for fifty to a hundred years.

This was, simply, “an expression of the American Mind” of 1776. But today? While only 1 in 10 Americans believe there is no God at all, only about half of Americans believe God is an active participant in their lives.[2] Only 40% of Americans believe God actually created the world as Jefferson alludes,[3] and fewer still believe in the existence of God-given rights. Some today even claim there is danger in insisting that rights come from God. Instead, these people insist that these rights come from “human progress.”[4] There are grave implications to this alternative view, as we will see in a moment.

But, as author Brian Vanyo points out:

“the Founding Fathers and other Natural Law philosophers did not take for granted that God existed. They did not base their strong conviction in God on religious dogma. Rather, they deduced that God must exist because an alternative conclusion was irrational…Belief in God was so common among the founding generation that further validation of God’s existence was often unnecessary and unwelcome.

Jefferson claimed these unalienable rights were an endowment – a gift – from our Creator: natural rights result from “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.” Later in life, in the only book he ever wrote, Jefferson reiterated this view. The colonists had been making this claim to their King – that these were their natural rights, and they were being violated – for many years.

The standard formula up until 1776 had been: “Life + Liberty + Property = Our Fundamental Natural Rights.”  Why did Jefferson now substitute “pursuit of happiness”?  Some scholars insist Jefferson borrowed the “pursuit of happiness” idea from John Locke. Locke indeed explored this idea in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (published 1689), which Jefferson no doubt studied. And it is undisputed that Jefferson modeled other phrases in the Declaration after Locke.  But “pursuit of happiness” and similar phrases were commonly encountered during the Founding period. Take this excerpt from a 1773

Election Sermon by Pastor Simeon Howard:

“In a state of nature, or where men are under no civil government, God has given to every one liberty to pursue his own happiness in whatever way, and by whatever means he pleases, without asking the consent or consulting the inclination of any other man, provided he keeps within the bounds of the law of nature. Within these bounds, he may govern his actions, and dispose of his property and person, as he thinks proper, Nor has any man, or any number of men, a right to restrain him in the exercise of this liberty, or punish, or call him to account for using it. This however is not a state of licentiousness, for the law of nature which bounds this liberty, forbids all injustice and wickedness, allows no man to injure another in his person or property, or to destroy his own life.”

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

More over

The Declaration of Independence states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based. Unlike the other founding documents, the Declaration of Independence is not legally binding, but it is powerful. Abraham Lincoln called it “a rebuke and a stumbling-block to tyranny and oppression.” It continues to inspire people around the world to fight for freedom and equality.

Separation of Church and State is a phrase that refers to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The phrase dates back to the early days of U.S. history, and Thomas Jefferson referred to the First Amendment as creating a “wall of separation” between church and state as the third president of the U.S. The term is also often employed in court cases. For example, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black famously stated in Everson v. Board of Education that “[t]he First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state,” and “that wall must be kept high and impregnable.”

How does this reality I just read comport with the reality that we live by today?

We are governed by local state governments and a gigantic federal government so much so that many people have neglected the fact that we have rights that are unalienable Rights  refers to that which cannot be given away or taken away. and think of themselves as given privileges by our State and Federal Governing bodies. 

Over many years I've taken these documents very seriously and have come to the conclusion that we have been being lied to on many levels not only by our governments but our religious institutions. Therefore I say I'm not religious.

I am not telling you I have the ultimate answers. Conscientiousness is the  awareness of internal and external existence of all Organic beings.

“I Think, Therefore I Am: René Descartes’ Life is the core of our organic existence

René Descartes (1596-1650) was a French mathematician, scientist and philosopher. He was born and raised in France, but traveled extensively around Europe and spent most of his working life in the Dutch Republic.

Descartes was well-known during his lifetime for his commitment to open dialogue with other philosophers. He invited other thinkers to publish responses to his work, then he collected them and responded to their reflections in turn. After a successful academic career, Descartes spent the last year of his life in Sweden, tutoring Queen Christina (although apparently the two didn’t get on!). Descartes died of pneumonia in February 1650, having earned fame as one of Europe’s most famous philosophers.

Question everything and you will find that TRUTH is timeless.

The search for truth is freedom and worth the trip.

I am not mathematician, scientist, philosopher or believer in religions . I am a conscientious man searching for truth.