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“I envy you your faith, somedays,” an agnostic friend in college once remarked as we ate lunch in the spring sunshine. “I wish I could have faith.”
“You can, you know. Faith is a choice,” I urged with perhaps a touch too much missionary zeal. “In the Book of Mormon there’s a famous sermon about how faith is like a science experiment. If you even have just a ‘desire to believe,” and choose to act on that desire, you’ll feel God’s love, and see results.”
“But logic is too deeply engrained in me for that to work,” he responded. “I’d just dismiss any positive feeling as a weird firing of brain chemicals, a manufactured emotional manipulation. It’s not tangible or real.” [Read more…]
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