existence to Christianity … Thus he finds himself asking, “What if it were true?” … What would it be like, he asks, to listen to Mozart’s Requiem and take it as nonfiction?7 Others are much more antagonistic, yet still can’t help but mirror, often unwittingly, the Christian story in significant ways. For all the talk of repressive Christian ethics and the confidence in our ability to reason and use common sense to guide how we should live, the reality is the Western world’s moral sensibilities are