John Guillaumier tells us (August 5) that “the phrase ‘eternal sleep’ suggests a peaceful slumber. But, in reality, death means annihilation”, as, according to Philip Larkin (Aubade), “The sure extinction that we travel to and shall be lost in always. Not to be here, not to be anywhere soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true”.

Quoting Albert Demanuele, he also tell us that “we simply die, like everything else in the cosmos... Everyone would like to know what happens beyond life but, unfortunately, no one came back to tell us about it”. And Guillaumier continues: “The only ‘evidence’ for the Christian belief in after life is the absolute silence of the grave”.

Is that not all hogwash from supposedly intelligent people? What about the young man, the little girl and Lazarus, who were all brought back to life by Jesus? And, to cap it all, Jesus himself rose from the dead after three days and spent 40 days on earth with people before going back to the Father in heaven, which, by the way, is not a physical/geographical place, as many take it to be.

And ‘they’ say nobody came back to tell us. Of course, they did. The proof is all there for those who want to see. But, no, they even deny proven history and call it fairy tales, when it is themselves that are inventing fairy tales and say they are the truth.