Article of faith: “When I die,” Baddiel writes, “Tony Soprano will have no more reality for me, because nothing will have any reality for me”. Illustration by Matt Holland For David Baddiel, God is “an archetype, a super-projection, of a parent which can be both blissful and terrifying. At heart, though, God is all about death. The other issues are spin-offs… Oblivion is the issue. Nothingness is the issue.” The God Desire is as much about death as it is the deity, if not more so. The writer and comedian views them both as examples of non-being. Humans flee from...