Today’s story, about Jesus’ disciple Thomas, reminds us that this sort of faith is harder for some than others. Some people’s minds just work in such a way as to demand more and better evidence than other people require. Maybe you know some of those people. They’re the ones who, as children, drove their parents and Sunday School teachers crazy by asking, “But why?” and “How could that happen?” As adults they gravitated away from the humanities and toward the sciences – especially sciences that work with solid, quantifiable data, like mathematics or chemistry or engineering. (Maybe not physics. Physics people are their own weird breed, with one foot in mathematics and one in medieval mysticism or Zen Buddhism.) Anyway, these people trust facts, not intuition; read history instead of novels and anything instead of poetry; and they are a normal variation of humanity.
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