It is so easy to demonize his lack of faith...
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The story of Doubting Thomas: It is so easy to demonize his lack of faith. But in fact Thomas' doubts, like our own, may be signs of a vibrant walk with Jesus, for doubts come when you care and spend of a lot of time thinking about your faith. The famed Roman orator Cicero claimed that "by doubting we come to truth." In the view of the famous modern theologian Paul Tillich, "Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith." The intimacy of faith and doubt was well expressed by novelist Hermann Hesse in Magister Ludi: "... faith and doubt belong together, in that they govern each other like inhaling and exhaling."
