What tribe am I?

The blogger,seer and all-round brain box has a thing about what he calls `Tribes'.
Tribes are like-minded people who link up because they share a common interest. I read a book of his
about tribes and he includes religious denominations as examples of tribes. It set me to thinking about religion. What is it? What's your religion? Catholic? Protestant? Muslim? Oak tree worshipper?
What country are your from? What race? What color? What politics do you support?
I've begun to become uncomfortable with the the label that religion sticks on me.It's the tribe thing.
Are you into the Beatles or the Stones? Liverpool F.C. or Man U? Boys or Girls? Is our spiritual journey to enrichment and enlightenment dictated by which team we're on? Which badge we wear?
Crusader or Saracen? And what do these tribe definitions do to bring us closer to the God we seek?
Does the Hindu have the inside advantage or the Jew? Is the Buddhist further along than the Sun worshiper? Or have we been thinking about it all wrong? This is the thinking that led to my lightbulb moment. I had always thought of these tribes,these religions,as various ways in which humankind has
tried to talk to God. Think of them as languages. The incense and formality of Catholicism is a language by which we may speak to God. The Papua New Guinea tribes who worship the Duke of Edinburgh is a language to get connected with the almighty power. I had always thought of them this way and it made the journey from one to another make sense as a person could find the language that
they feel most comfortable talking in. The 50 minutes and done cosiness of the Episcopal ceremony or the hours of snake holding and speaking in tongues of the more colorful evangelical sects are just ways of talking. But then I thought No! It's not about talking.There's too much talking.So much talking AT God. Is anybody talking WITH God and more way more importantly is anybody listening when God talks to us.I am on a path to explore this for myself.I'm writing it down to capture the record of my path.
I'm on a mission to listen to what God has to say and I want to be careful that I'm not just listening to some random thoughts in my head or that I'm giving myself permission to be schizophrenic. I want to know how to listen to God and not the interference and static buzz of an overactive imagination.
I'll keep you posted how it goes.