There’s a story about the atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell being asked what he would say if he found himself standing before God on the Day of Judgement and God asked him “Why didn’t you believe in Me?” Russell replied: “I would say, Not enough evidence, God! Not enough evidence!”
For some people, no amount of evidence would convince them to believe in God and in Jesus’s Resurrection. But the famous example of St Thomas the Apostle’s disbelief was not that of a cynical atheist. When the other apostles told Thomas that Jesus had risen from the dead, he very much wanted it to be true – but he just found it too astonishing to accept. We are reminded of this every year in the Gospel for his feast day on July 3.
