What you believe is revealed and confirmed by your actions. If you believe as I do that the dead Jesus was transformed into the living Jesus Christ, that ought to guide our actions toward others and our attitudes toward what is real, as well as toward ourselves. Otherwise we are hypocrites.

Here's the rub: how do we interpret the meaning of the resurrection, beyond whether it happened or not? It is worth remembering that for 1800 years the churches accepted slavery, including mine. And approved of capital punishment. That was "cultural Christianity" too. It was reformed from within, and is still reforming...

Dawkins' perspective is too simplistic, and many Christians feed it by their words and actions. The resurrection is an act of new creation, presaged by the conception of Jesus. We remain in the old, though it is gradually transforming into the new ("If anyone is ion Christ there is a new creation"—2 Cor. 5:17). Yet the old cannot understand the new, and we are still (mostly) of the old creation.

However, the new is the old, transformed. So it is possible for us to grasp something of the outline of the new. But it is liking seeing enigmas in a mirror. Or if you will, through a glass darkly...