Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, who died on 22 December 25 years ago, was sometimes contemptuous of those who believe but, as one admirer of the author argues, Beckett consistently explored the idea of faith in his work SAMUEL BECKETT, photographed at the age of three, was posed kneeling on a cushion at his mother’s knee, with his head bowed and his hands clasped in apparent prayer. In his 1961 novel, Comment c’est (“How it is”), Beckett conjured up that image of being “on a cushion on my knees whelmed in a nightshirt I pray according to her instructions that’s not all she closes her eyes and drones a snatch of the so-called Apostle’s Creed”. Here Beckett describes describes praying this “so-called” Creed as a “drone&rdqu