In Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, Ross Douthat relates a story from a couple of decades ago, in which he had a late-night conversation with the famously combative atheist Christopher Hitchens. (Hitchens went to meet his allegedly nonexistent maker in 2011.) He asked Douthat, a believing Catholic, to imagine for a moment that Jesus did actually rise from the dead. The tipsy and tired Douthat responded, “OK, let’s suppose he did.” “Well then,” Hitchens asked, “what would that really prove?”
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