As for Buddha, I don't mind him at all, if I have no choice (I mean in the artistic department only). I don't question him real, no disrespect, I'm just not sure he is. And he is not part of the three religions I believe in; Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Is there a particular reason that you'd only follow the Abrahamic religions and not, (for example, Buddhism).
(for those that don't know Abraham had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac, the three of them eventually through teachings and bloodlines led to the creation of Judaism, Christianity and Muslim... -hence why they are called the Abrahamic religions).
that family has probably created more trouble than every other family thereafter!
To root's comment though, I don't think there's anything 'imaginary' about our creator(s)... While I don't subscribe to any religious doctrine or belief system, you cannot say that there is no creator, whatever form that creator takes. Were are not the products of extreme coincidence. The chaos theory clears that up quite nicely for us. I think Einstein put it best: We simply cannot comprehend everything that is the Universe.
Given that nobody (save perhaps Noah, Moses, Mary and Mohammed) have ever seen or claimed to have seen or spoken to God, and if anyone claimed such a thing we'd probably have them sectioned today I think it's probably fair to say that God, if you count him/her/he/she/it as a friend is an imaginary friend.
That's not to say that said Deity does not exist outside of your imagination, but that to you your God exists inside your imagination.
and that's a part of the reason that we have the troubles that we do with fundamentalists and crazies today, when a being exists inside your imagination it's quite elastic.
Words are reasonably easy to twist to what you like, and when you believe that God is real and you are following what you have twisted to believe the word of God to be. and because your version of God exists in your head then God approves. and yet because another person has twisted the message to another way, their version of God is incompatible with your God.
well first that's when we start calling people crazies.
and secondly how having an imagined friend leads to trouble.
how would you describe something as ethereal as God as anything other than imagined?