must be willing to listen and humble enough to understand that there are things they do not understand, have no experience of, to date.
All of that definitely applies to me wrt religion. I go out of my way to hear what people I respect have to say about their religious beliefs, so far nothing's clicked.
There are ways of thinking about certain "non-physical" properties of the world that I think are reasonably describe as supernatural (spontaneous market order, for example), but it would be disingenuous to claim that I mean the same thing as religious people by that.
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The issue is probably that I'm not seeking anything other than understanding. If you try to believe something, you'll find reasons.
I'm open to believing anything, but I'm not trying to believe anything.
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It does seem like most people who find religion do so through some kind of experience that I've never had.
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