That's an amazing analogy.
I can really relate to that. All my life I had such a problem rationalizing the questions I had about religion vs. what I believed in a spiritual sense.
I had so intertwined my self constructed theory in which I had to "believe" everything that my religion taught me in order to be spiritual, that I doubted everything, believed nothing, and was unable to have a relationship with a higher power.
The concept of a god of my own understanding was such a freeing notion for me. I had always felt most spiritual when I was "the guy fishing". However, if you put me in a church pew listening to a sermon about water turning to wine or seven loaves of Sunbeam and a few mullet feeding 1000's, all that evaporated.
To me, having a conscious relationship with my higher power is an equivalent or greater miracle that the obsession to drink was lifted from me. I now enjoy "church" and can take the messages I need for my life and leave the rest with no guilt or shame.
Thank you so much for sharing that.