I do not agree that believing in God or Jesus automatically aligns you with the entire Judeo-Christian theology at all. For me it is a personal matter and based on my personal spiritual experiences which have absolutely nothing to do with anyone else at all. I reject church dogma as contrived and manipulated material. I do not accept the Bible as the infallible inspired word of God either. Based on that alone I cannot be rightfully considered a Christian by definition. It makes no difference in my relationship with God at all.

I have the same sort of beliefs concerning Buddhism. I do believe in the Buddha nature of the mind but I reject the dogma of their organized religion too and therefore cannot rightfully be called a Buddhist either. That in no way effects my relationship with my own Buddha nature either.

I could go on similarly about other spiritual teachings I have experience with but I think this is enough to get the idea across. I am a human being who thinks and has a spiritual nature. Reason and faith are not at odds within my own mind. There is certainly much I do not understand and I don't see the need to understand everything, that is a completely futile endeavor. That said there is always more to learn and understand and I do not turn away from acquiring valid knowledge either. The organized dogmas that draw an outline of God's so called plan and how things really are according to them are nothing but the height of human arrogance as far as I am concerned. I believe but not in a belief system.