Inspired by lil_shepherd, but not aimed at her or anyone specifically

I dislike the word "supernatural."

Nothing in this universe is supernatural. Nothing outside it, assuming there is an outside, is supernatural. Nature is what is real. "Supernatural" means beyond real, which is another way of saying "not real." I don't like words that prejudice the discussion. (Alternatively, of course, it could be read as simply "beyond that which occurs in nature," in which case the Severn Road Bridge is supernatural, but I don't think anyone seriously uses it in that way.)

If there is any kind of deity, if any part of us exists apart from the body and survives its death, these things are part of nature and are therefore natural. We just don't see them, the way we don't see bacteria or dark matter unless we look with special instruments. There aren't any reliable instruments to see the "supernatural" yet, and since half of the people in our society who might be able to develop them are fully invested in proving the "supernatural" doesn't exist, and the other half are fully invested in being the only people who are authorised to deal with it, it's unlikely there ever will be.

There is nothing supernatural to life. But there's more than we can see.