Dogs roaming the street in Cairo, 24 April 2020. (Photo by Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP via Getty Images)
He felt an envy for religious people that he's sometimes felt before. This time, John Harris writes, it came from "a year of lockdown, the sudden fear of serious illness and death, and the sense of all of it being wholly random and senseless. ... Like millions of other faithless people, I have not even the flimsiest of narratives to project on to what has happened, nor any real vocabulary with which to talk about the profundities of life and death." Many people like him have found that "life without God has turned out to be life without fellowship and shared meaning."
