It's interesting that you end your discussion of the location of the meaning of god, and where it is found.  Your declaration of where this so called god is found does not convince anyone or anything.  I may declare that god is located in my pinky, that does not make this a worthy idea, rational, or in anyway important enough to teach to anyone else.  If you find the idea of the Jewish god so interesting as to find its meaning in the "in stories of faithful friendships, the births of the children, the cycles of life and death" then so be it.  But this god is no friend of mine, just like Zeus or Thor no longer find many friends among the people of the world.  Religious moderates are a contradiction in terms.  This may take a while for you to accept, but logically it is a an inevitability that those who are intellectually honest will have to come to terms with.