[JonoSasson]

I'm definitely not a god believer of any kind. Mainstream religious gods, Shinto gods... gods are talked about all the time. In the good old days of Religious Education however, I had for a very for short time (I wonder why it was such a short time...) a teacher who gave me both some very insightful and less insightful words. Of the ones I do consider insightful, he told me, "God isn't something you necessarily have to believe in, God can be something we feel inside when we are happy, when we are sad, when we laugh and when we're nervous. It doesn't have to be materialistic, represented as a man sitting beyond the clouds who created what we live in today. Upon the chapel I went to everyday as a child were the words, 'God is Love' and for those who don't believe there was an all-knowing and wise creator, perhaps the God we're looking for is simply inside of us."

He didn't say that exactly, I'm sure some of that is my beliefs also... but that's I'm sure what he was trying to get me to see. He continually reminded my class, "God is Love. Love is God." In fact, he was getting older and it pretty much begun every lesson.

Anyways, God doesn't have to be a theological reference. Although try telling that to a philosopher. I told my philosophy teacher that, she gave me a half hour-long lecture as to why this could never be. I never was one for philosphy... or philosophers.

Having little knowledge or care for both 'The Big Bang' and the Creationist God, I think what's happened here is that society has taught itself through everyday things that everything must have a reasonable explanation. Hence Science comes about (don't hold that against me!!). We continually see things from a

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perspective, because it seems rational. Some question what is past space. The only reason they question this is because we have been lead to believe that after something there must be something more. We can't just say space just goes on forever because 'that doesn't seem right'. Sure, I myself find it hard to conceive that this is the case, but perhaps it is! Don't just disregard something for the sake of disregarding something. There's so much we don't know and probably won't know for millions of years to come (which may come, maybe God will destroy us before then though). I'm beginning to like the theory of being on the back of a turtle.