Doubting Thomas

My allusion presentation of this week is Doubting Thomas.  This story centers around a man who refuses to believe in the second coming of Christ and continues his disbelief until he is greeted by Christ eight days later.  The nickname “Doubting Thomas” is meant to describe either a pessimist or a person who will not believe in something until they are actually shown that it is real.  I thought about this allusion for a while and realized that many stories do actually have a Doubting Thomas in them.  Most horror movies that I have seen have the tough jock in it (who is usually killed first, by the way) who refuses to believe in whatever mysterious evil being there is; this character will often say that he is not scared and try to confront the antagonistic creature in order to show everyone else that it is not real.  However, since it is a horror movie, the being is always real and the jock who provoked it is most often than not killed.  There are many other movie genres that include a character like this, too.  For example, in the comedy Warm Bodies, a zombie falls in love with a girl, who soon realizes that with her love she is changing hims back into a human; the father of the girl refuses to believe this since his wife was killed by a zombie when the apocalypse first happened.  The father only changes his belief when (SPOILER ALERT) the zombie is shot and begins to bleed.  This scene is of great importance since a major trait in zombies is that they do not bleed, meaning that the zombie has now turned into a human.  The father finally decides that zombies can change and decides to fight on their side during the apocalypse rather than fight against them.  The father could easily be classified as a Doubting Thomas not only for the reason that he would not believe in the transformation of zombies to humans, but also because he did not have any trust or faith in his daughter’s words; he had to shoot the zombie in order to believe in the transformation, rather than simply believe that his daughter was telling the truth.  Part of being a Doubting Thomas is having no trust in others and only having trust in what is seen rather than what is believed.  This actually makes me wonder whether I am a Doubting Thomas or not.  After all, I do not believe when people tell me outlandish things in order to stay away from having “gullible” tattooed across my forehead, yet I do believe in that which cannot be seen such as God and even paranormal entities.  Now I’m not saying I believe in spooky ghosts who float around the world in order to haunt people, but I do believe in life after death, though I cannot see it.  After researching this allusion, I am now questioning myself: am I a Doubting Thomas?