By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - When I first became a Catholic, someone asked me: “Okay, so some guy died two thousand years ago. What does that have to do with me?” Good question. I didn’t have a good answer. But I knew that if I was serious about this “Catholic thing,” I better get one... There are plenty of doubts that can beset a person about the claim that Jesus was the only-begotten Son of God, whose death and resurrection have brought about the salvation of the world. One is simply the absurd magnificence of it.