Americans Don't Need A Metaphor

The Understanding That We Reach A Point Where We Stop Becoming Something And Start Ending As Something. That Comes At Different Times In Different Points In Different People's Lives, And Obviously There Are Lots Of People Who Experience The Presence Of Death Much More Keenly And Much Earlier Than I Did. But We All Come To Grips With It Eventually.

Life May Be Miraculous In Its Unlikelihood In The Universe, But It Would Be A Fallacy To Suggest That Its Rareness Makes It Inextinguishable.

Truth May Be Stranger Than Fiction, Goes The Old Saw, But It Is Never As Strange As Lies.

My Hope When I Wrote The First Book Was That I Would Get To Do It Again. But It Was Not Entirely Clear That That Would Happen.

I'm Not Sure If That Answers The Question And I Have Absolutely No Problem With Any Major World Religion On Earth.