In his latest novel, The Fire Gospel, the former militant aetheist, Michel Faber, addresses the consolations of religion:
Prometheus's tale is one of enlightenment and its consequences. In Faber's retelling, enlightenment comes in the form of a fifth gospel which falls into the hands of a Canadian academic scavenging around a looted Iraqi museum. This new gospel reveals Christ to be nothing more than a good man, made of flesh like us, whose final words on the cross were, "Please, somebody, please finish me."
— Helen Brown
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