Why doubt is so difficult

Can religious skepticism really solve our troubled world?

Faith requires doubt.
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It's fitting that the editors of the Sunday Review section of The New York Times chose Easter Sunday to publish an op-ed column about the crucial importance of tempering religious faith with doubt. Easter, after all, is the holiday when the world's 2.2 billion Christians celebrate the bodily resurrection of a recently executed carpenter and itinerate preacher in ancient Judea who also happened to be the creator of the universe incarnated in human form.

Do you find that difficult to believe? Then the essay is for you.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.