H. G. Wells 
God the Invisible King 

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’.’