Perhaps as Camus had illustrated in the myth of Sisyphus, the struggle itself was enough to fill the heart. Except that with time it was not.
How did I know that everyone and everything I’d ever laid eyes on wasn’t just a projection of my own subconscious imagination?
It might seem that God and string theory, like Harry and Voldemort, cannot live while the other survives.
The problem for Christians is thus the problem of invisibility, which empire exacerbates, for in empire, that which is unsightly is exported from the collective imagination.