Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

Christianity is a religion in a rush.