Dan Pedersen I thoroughly agree with your “educate yourself” premise. In fact, I vehemently agree with it. Nothing inhibits education in America more so that the public education system. My own education was going along fine at a snail’s pace until I finally dropped out of college at which point my education then went into warp speed. I now realize that my education didn’t truly start until I disengaged from society’s educational system.

While I truly enjoyed your short article, I would personally make one teeny, tiny change to your five big questions. Instead of asking, “Who is God?” I would ask, “What is God?” If you are trying to conceptualize “God” as a person, a ‘who,’ then you are drastically limiting the scope of understanding you may receive from asking such a question. God is far, far, far more than a who. God is not a person and God does not have genitals and gender like a person does. Humans have created God in their own image. They look in the mirror to find God yet they fail to see God within themselves in that mirror. And they also fail to see God on the other side of the mirror. Asking, “Who is God?” is like looking for Waldo in an elaborate drawing without realizing that the entire drawing is God….. as well as that part of God staring into the drawing. Not until we drop the conceptualization, the who, when, where, how and even what, can we break out of the bonds of thinking and begin to feel and experience a tiny bit of what God is. But sadly, our educational system has taught us to always rely solely on our cognitive brain functions and this keeps us from ever “finding” God.