Belief

What is worse:

To imagine someone exists
Or deny someone who does?
And well, does He?
We believe in Napoleon
Precisely 'cos he didn't fly
He only ravaged Europe
-- with learning, according to some --
And sent his men to die
Across fields frozen; that part,
No one seems to deny.
We believe in Julius Caesar
Because he didn't claim to heal
But he did know how to kill
-- yet also, more than his peers --
To put sword back in its sheath.
And then we have Christ
Whose life two millenia ago
Seems accepted by most
But the details of his life
And more so, what followed
Are a stumbling block.
There is authority in his speech
But miracles, by their nature
Are difficult (or impossible?) to believe.
It needs a second childhood,
A second birth.
One we hope, springs not
From stupid laughter
But His wise mirth.

( see Chesterton https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2012/09/06/his-mirth/ )