When we survey the treatment that God has received from philosophers down through the millennia, it is not hard agree with Unamuno’s assessment of the god of philosophy as “a dead thing”.

No story can move us like the story of the Author entering our plot to give his life for the bliss of his people.

We are not neutral to the outcome of our spiritual journeys. As objective as we try to be, we want to arrive at some outcome, be it belief or disbelief.

Freud paraphrases Jesus’ famous words with his own, rather peppery, twist.