God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.