Ethan's Nonfic blog

Dear Uni, I first met you when I was just a 14 year old trying to find a new home. I had just moved to Champaign the previous summer, went to Next Generation middle school for one year, and still felt like I belonged in South Bend Indiana and not here. You welcomed me with open arms but did not accept my twin brother (sorry Isaac). It was weird starting an adventure without him but you helped me through it by introducing me to all the wonderful people who I call my friends. Our relationship started off with a somewhat shaky start. I did not expect the workload that you threw at me, also your friend Kenney Gym’s fitness sucks. Although sometimes I struggled, you never left me behind. Your warm atmosphere and closeness guided me to talk to my teachers and figure out a plan for success. You were kind enough to give the subbies their own floor where we played countless hours of FPS video games, laughed and studied. Soon enough you released us from our Uni Period study halls, and let us exp

Let me start off with a couple of things. First, I don’t believe in God. I think that God is something that people a long time ago made up to explain the unexplainable. Second, I am Jewish. It’s pretty ironic that even though I don’t believe in God I am extremely involved in my Jewish community and serve as the Religous and Cultural President of the Chicago area region in my Jewish Youth Group. I am an atheist but am still very Jewish if that makes sense. I think about the idea of God a lot and just wanted to write this post to share some of the topics I think about with y’all. My first question is if there is a God then why in the world is there so much hate and evil in the world? Where was God during the Holocaust? Where was God during the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Parkland, or Orlando? If God has the power to create the world and has the power to answer our prayers then why doesn’t God just eliminate all of the bad aspects of the universe? Couldn’t we all just live in a utopia whe