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You didn't choose your faith. You inherited it, the way you inherited your native language.

Nobody audits the language they grew up speaking. Same with the beliefs wrapped around it.

But every religion is a hypothesis about the nature of reality. It makes claims, what this is, why you're here, what happens after. Claims can be tested. Hypotheses can fail.

Most believers never run the experiment. They defend the conclusion before examining the evidence, because the belief arrived bundled with family, identity, belonging. Questioning it feels like betrayal, not inquiry.

So try this: name what evidence would actually shake your faith. If the answer is "nothing," you don't hold that belief. It holds you.

Faith that survives testing is strong. Faith that forbids testing was never faith at all.

Sit with this one.

Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times. Psalm 106:3
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The Language of God

Francis S. Collins

The scientist who led the Human Genome Project on why he believes. The plainest bridge between the two worlds.

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