GBS
Well, Mav, Jeder hat seinem Geschmuck. I love GBS' plays; in fact, I have to agree with his own estimation that he was probably the greatest playwright (in English, anyway) since Shakespeare, a view he put forth in the short play Shakes vs. Shav.

To answer Bill's question, in various plays (and more, in the prefaces thereto) he advocated a view which he took from Nietzche, that there is an impersonal Life Force which animates (I guess that's the word but not sure) the universe. It's a sort of Deism but not as theistic. In fact, it's nonsense to anyone who has a religion, and equally nonsense to an atheist or thoroughgoing agnostic. You can get some of this from the prefaces to Man and Superman and, I think, Saint Joan.