We disagree on the extreme because people. If people’s consciousness is ruled by the material world and I know we disagree on that, they would be ruled by an extremely large number of extremely complex non-linear equations that feed back on each other. Physics does not have the tools to deal with such a system, much less the computational power to model it. Going to the extremes in people just finds you weird one-offs, anecdotes, not general rules.
We agree on Mencken being delusional but you seem to avoid the real issue he raises. if we Christians have to believe in the miraculous at the resurrection, we are already believers in supernatural, spooky things. To act like other lesser spooky things are not acceptable is like saying I don’t take bribes after one already took an earlier bribe. That is why I wrote that if we are already drenched in the rain of supernaturalism with the resurrection, what is the point of acting like the acceptance of other the supernatural events is beneath our dignity? The other miracles in the Bible, talking snake, talking donkey, Lot’s wife are just the swimming pool of supernaturalism. If we are wet in the rain of the resurrectin, what exactly is the basis of the reluctance to jump in the swimming pool of the other biblical stories?