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Ariana Harris's avatar

I grew up without religion. By the time I attended my performing arts high school I was affirmed in that because all teachers and students loudly professed that religion was for the unthinking, non intellectuals. But I was ravaged with sorrow and the pain of the world. In a desperate attempt to find relief, I said a prayer. It changed my life and my worldview entirely. My simple plea to God was that I might find joy in my life, true joy. And I immediately received an answer that (had it not been so powerful an experience) I would have scoffed at: go to church. I laugh at this answer now too sometimes as many Christians attempt to separate their belief in Him from the church they attend, but my learning to attend church first before believing taught me the value of our sacred rituals and practices. It’s almost as if it has its own science. Or that it was all related all along.

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Aaron Blumberg's avatar

In my early 20’s I was an atheist studying string theory, quantum mechanics, and computer science.

One night I had a dream where I said to a crowd of people, “I believe in God because we live in an objective world that permits subjectivity.”

In the dream, the crowd of people looked at me and nodded affirmatively.

I woke up and thought, “Do I really believe that?”

I had to admit it passed my filter of reason.

It would be years before I investigated the western tradition, but I did so with a logical basis, an admission that of all possible universes, the one we live in is astonishingly good.

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