Thus his
vision, beginning with man accepting, affirming, even willing the death of God in a
radical sense, ends with man willing to participate in the utter desolation of the
secular or the profane, willing to undergo the discipline of darkness, the dark night of the soul (here Altizer's affinity with the religious existentialists, who may not have God but who don't at all like not having him, is clearest), while the possibility of a new epiphany of the sacred, a rebirth of the possibility of having God once more is awaited.