It is the imagination which links man to God

We are imprisoned in space and time and there appears to be no obvious way of escaping from them. Indeed if, like Richard Dawkins and other neanderthals, you do not believe in a non-material world, there is no escape at all. You, as an individual, have no more significance, no more meaningful past, present or future than a piece of rock or a puff of dust. Nobody else is significant either, and nothing matters. When we die, darkness closes in and we go out like the light on a switched-off television set, dwindling and then vanishing utterly, for ever.

But what does it mean ‘When we die’? What is death? How do you define it? It can be defined medically and legally. But not philosophically. I’m not even sure it can be defined theologically and it certainly cannot be defined scientifically. Personally, I do not believe in death. A better term would be ‘clocking off’, because at that point we leave time.