Over the years, I’ve found that I’ve had an uneasiness about use of the term ‘The Universe’.

Many people uncomfortable with the word ‘God’ seem to use the ‘The Universe’ as if the two were interchangeable.

I didn’t know what caused my uneasiness, but it was there whenever I heard this expression.

Conversely, I found that many, many people objected to, or were even offended by, the word ‘God’. So many people have negative associations with this word, largely owing to unpleasant and even sometimes detrimental experiences with religion, its teachings, or its clerics.

However, none of this explained my aversion to the ubiquitous new-age term ‘The Universe’. Continue reading