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“There are three basic ways (with variations) in which we can imagine God's space and ours relating to one another. [...] Option one is to slide the two spaces together. God's space and ours, in this option, are basically the same; [...] God is everything, and everything is God. This option is known as "pantheism". [...] The problem with pantheism [...] is that it can't cope with evil. [...] when everything (including yourself) shares in, or lives in, divinity, there's no higher court of appeal when something bad happens. [...] Option two is to hold the spaces firmly apart. God's space and ours are a long way away from one another in this option. [...] The gods will not intervene, either to help or to harm. The right thing to do is to enjoy life as best one can. [...] That's why, when many people say they believe in God, they will often add in the same breath [...] they don't think much about God from one year's end to the next. I don't blame them. If I believed in a distant, remote God like that, I wouldn't get out of bed on a Sunday morning either. [That's] The real problem with Epicureanism in the ancient world, and Deism in ours [...] Option three is what we find within classic Judaism and Christianity. Heaven and earth are not coterminous, in this option. Nor are they separated by a great gulf. Instead, they overlap and interlock in a number of different ways.”