Some – including some Christians – opt for Plato. Death isn’t the worst that can happen. We’re heading somewhere else anyway. All right, let’s be sensible, but please don’t shut down the churches. Or the golf clubs. Meanwhile, in the refugee camps, in the multi-storey tower-blocks, in the slums and the souks, the suffering gets worse. And the sorrow rises from the whole world like a pall of smoke, shaping the question we hardly dare ask: Why?
