It happened sometime during my sophomore year of college. I had been raised Baptist and it was during this time I was really checking out what other traditions had to say. I was especially checking out Buddhism and had started meditating around this time. What really did it for me was when I realized the magnitude of the word "omnipresent." Christians are taught that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omnicient. Well, I thought, if God is omniporesent, doesn't that mean that I'm god? Doesn't that mean everyone else is god? Doesn't that mean that the gods of other religions are the same god I beileve in? I realized how silly the concept of religion is. It merely categorizes different ways of having reverence for and experiencing the same power. To me, whether he/she/it is referred to as God, Source, the Universe, Allah, YHWH, etc., it's all the same thing and it's within us. Lately I've been been on a path that's leading me to believe that God is a term for experienceing pure love.