I started to set up a two-headed conditional in my last post, saying, “If you believe in the Resurrection…,” but I never came back to fill in the contrary.

Simply put, if you don’t believe in the Resurrection (thus incurring a responsibility to take account of “the democracy of the dead”) you have no choice but to live in a different sort of democracy of the dead.

After all, as John Maynard Keynes famously put it,