H. G. Wells 
God the Invisible King [EPUB ebook] 

According to Wikipedia ‘Wells wrote in his book God The Invisible King that his idea of God did not draw upon the traditional religions of the world: ‘This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. [Which] is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God.’ Later in the work he aligns himself with a ‘renascent or modern religion … neither atheist nor Buddhist nor Mohammedan nor Christian … [that] he has found growing up in himself’. Of Christianity he has this to say: ‘… it is not now true for me … Every believing Christian is, I am sure, my spiritual brother … but if systemically I called myself a Christian I feel that to most men I should imply too much and so tell a lie.’ Of other world religions he writes: ‘All these religions are true for me as Canterbury Cathedral is a true thing and as a Swiss chalet is a true thing. There they are, and they have served a purpose, they have worked. Only they are not true for me to live in them … They do not work for me’.’