“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you,” he said. As in Hercules’s battle against the Hydra, all our attempts to chop through agnostic arguments are met with writhing new examples of suffering. Novelist Peter De Vries has called the problem of pain “the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.” And too often the Christian defense sounds like a red-faced, foot-shuffling, lowered-head apology. “The problem