Such a touchy subject. Why do humans find the need to cling to the idea of a supernatural being looking over us? My idea: We need to. The thought of us not just appearing here and having someone or something else place us here for a reason appeals to our vanity as a race. I dunno. All I know is what I believe. Nativism, as I call it. It's not true nativism. I just dubbed it that, since it's easier to type than "Ancestral Beliefs". Anyway. Monotheism. The belief that all things around you have an....essence. Not quite a spirit, but a connection. The rocks and trees, birds and squirrels, man and deer. All connected, in some way. Also it's a belief that animals, other than humans, should be respected in the same manner as other people are. Except we don't eat other people. For example, you kill a deer, you ask your "Brother Deer" for forgiveness for causing him pain, and thank him for nourishing your body and giving his remains to you for whatever use you might have for them. Making a new shirt, sinew for a bow, hoof for a hilt, whatever. But yea, that's a little bit more on what I believe. It's relatively simple, and it translated to modern society. Oh how I wish I could go back to the days when we didn't know about visitors from over the "Great Pond". Those days were...lovely. A virtual Utopia, for me anyway. Sure there was war and all that, but it wasn't for the same reasons as now. We didn't battle over belongings, because there was no sense of owning anything. There's not even a word for it. We fought for simple things. Honor. Hunting grounds. Things like that. Not because we wanted to expand our borders, or because we thought the tribe next to us looked funny. Speaking of honor, that's what I miss. The sense of a fair fight, and the knowledge that your enemy had the same ideals as you. But I suppose...the days of olde are gone forever. Well until after WW3, if man survives that one. Oh well. There are only two things I know of the be constant, so says Einstein, the universe and man's ignorance. Cherrio chaps!