Ohh, that's gonna get infected...

the key phrase here for christians is "blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."

the other disciples took the resurrection on faith - as all christians must. thomas wasn't much of a christian.

William McKinley died because of an infection after somebody fingered his bullet wound. Bad idea!

That must be a caravaggio

He was also supposed to be Christ's actual brother. As in, child of Mary and Joseph. Which makes the doubting thing more believable; he doubtless had visions of Spotty Teenage Jesus dancing in his head.

Thomas should be wearing a finger condom.

Thomas the Apostle also wrote a Gospel: not a cohesive narrative, but a collection of quotations from Yeshua/ΙΗΣΟΥΣ, including some post-resurrection sayings.

Nothing but nonsense.

"[B]lessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed" is basically the worst thing that has ever been written.

Ah yes, doubting Thomas. The old story used to teach Christian kids that critical thinking is bad.

A story designed the the cult originators that demands Christians to blindly follow without doubt, and also without critical thinking.

#5 I believe Jesus' brother was named Bob.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmnLrd8CO…

@10, i think you are right about that. those lines have destroyed millions of lives.

@7: i doubt any disciple actually wrote any gospel. a key parable in the gospel of thomas centers on thomas so i assume that's how it got it's name.

Reminds me of when I was a kid in Catholic school, we were often told: "Don't be a doubting Thomas" when we had a question that couldn't easily be answered.

@16 It's amazing how religion has developed ways of crushing a child's intellectual curiosity. When I think back on how being indoctrinated as a helpless child into the Catholic cult stymied normal brain development, I am infuriated. Fortunately for me, I connected with adults of normal intelligence when I was a teen. It spurred an almost fanatical desire to learn about the real world, free from myths and superstitions.

@17 I have Jubal Harshaw from A Stranger in a Strangeland to thank, myself, Vince. I've since moved over to atheism (well, I'm an agnostic atheist to be technical), but reading about that character describing agnosticism, the first time I had ever heard of it, was a profound turning point in my life. It just made so much more sense than all the bullshit I had heard on the topic of religion previously.