In her Easter column, Joan Beck states that “Scholars can peel away the layers of dogma with which theologians and politicians have distorted what happened 2,000 years ago, but they cannot prove those events never occurred.”
What makes her think that the burden of proof lies with those who don’t believe this preposterous proposition?–the proposition being, not that an omnipotent creator could assume human form, die and return from the grave three days later (of course he could) but that such a creator exists in the first place.
She finds the prolificacy and longevity of the Christian faith to be “compelling evidence” of its truth; she and many others believe it, so it must be so. She grossly underestimates the timeless power of wishful thinking.
