What is God?

God is supposed to be the "way, the truth, and the light." Well...he's led us down some dark paths, hasn't always been right (or at least is heavily misinterpreted), and provided a means for the Dark Ages to be even darker with religiously inspired violence. Why is he so passive? A lot of people would say it's because he doens't exist, but I actually do believe he exists in other ways.

So...who/what is God? Most of the humans living on Earth say they believe in a god of some sort. All believe they are right without evidence, even though just about everyone looks at religion in a different way. Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in a single God who fulfills the role of a universal father, mother, judge, puppeteer, and anything else you want him to be. Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Baha’is accept that he may not follow the rules of Western religions, but there is still a definite divine force out there. Of course, any time you repeat back to people what they believe, it sounds dumb and they get offended and say you misinterpreted but these are the general views as they go by the books. Deists, pantheists, agnostics, and Buddhists don’t really believe in God but don’t completely rule him out. And of course, atheists completely reject the notion that some conscious being is responsible for existence and what goes on inside. Where does this belief come from? People have different ideas of what God is, but in all cases he exists to explain the unexplained. You ready for my explanation?
There is no other way to define God other than he is the mortar of understanding. He is the caulking we squirt into cracks to make us feel we have an air-tight understanding of existence. I believe in God, but he is something different than what we assume. He is the shadow in the corner of the room that we can characterize as the unknown. God once ruled the world, but is slowly being eaten away by the light of our understanding. He only exists in the cracks, and when we fully understand something, the crack is sealed and religious people shift their attention to a new spot with holes. He has no form of power, but summarizes the chain of events that have taken place in order for something to occur. There are lots of thigs we don't understand, but science carefully takes a closer look to map that chain of events, filling out the picture instead of taking leaps and jumping to conclusions.

Religion is nothing short of relishing in ignorance. Science doesn’t have a definite answer for everything yet, but you don’t win just because you throw out a hypothesis. People on Jeopardy don’t win because they are the first to answer, but because they give the right answer. Unfortunately, there is no Alex Trebek here to judge if we’re right, so we have to take our time in figuring it all out for ourselves.