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The Vedic and Brahmanical religion of the Buddha 's day postulated a large number of gods , many of them personifications of natural forces . About the same time certain shepherds found him hid in a cave ; who , at the first , spying him among the bushes , clothed in the skins of beasts , took him for some wild beast , but afterwards knowing him to be a servant of god , many of them were converted from their savage life to virtue . Greek artists normally did not depict human birth , rather it was the births of gods , many of them fantastic , that they rendered . " I have no doubt that , on the basis of their reading The Quest for God , many will discover that Paul Johnson 's prayer has been answered . The Eyes of God , many of these people simply have nowhere to go , no way to make a living other than become beggars . It is questionable whether fundamentalism , as it is usually defined relative to Christianity and Islam , can exist at all in the more open and diverse religious tradition of Hinduism which has many names and forms for God , many great teachers and incarnations , many sacred books , and a pursuit of Self-realization which does not recognize the existence of any eternal heaven or hell . My mother loved to tell me stories from the Bible and she inspired me to read biographies and stories of great men and women of God , many of whom were martyrs , missionaries , and heroes of the faith . Then after , the christian host , esprised and beat with a much great and wonderful sickness by the just judgment of God , many christian men died there , insomuch that of the number of two and thirty thousand fighting men , ne was there left on live but six thousand men . Though the nation as a whole had turned away from God , many had not . The Bible itself contains many images of God , many ideas about human nature , different ways of understanding suffering and evil , and various ways to envision God 's purpose for creation . " I have no doubt that , on the basis of their reading The Quest for God , many will discover that Paul Johnson ’ s prayer has been answered .