David Brooks: I Found Faith in a Crowded Subway Car

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  This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.

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  You've heard the news.

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  Here's what to make of it.

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  My name is David Brooks.

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  I'm a columnist at the New York Times.

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  I write about politics, about culture, and these days, even about faith and spirituality.

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  Well, it's the holiday season, so religion is supposed to be on our minds at least as much as shopping.

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  As a kid, I experienced religion mostly as boredom.

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  So from time to time, I would go to services with my grandfather in the synagogue.

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  But I went to a Christian school, and so I went to chapel every morning and sang the Christian hymns.

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  So half of my life was in the world of Judaism, going to synagogue, and half my life was in the world of Christianity.

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  Didn't really matter to me because I didn't believe in God.

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  So it was just two stories, and I didn't really see a problem with having these two halves of my life.

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  And then I spent about 50 years as an agnostic or maybe as an atheist somewhere in that territory.

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  And in those days, when I thought about faith, I thought it was all about belief.

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  You had to believe that certain things are true, that God really does exist, that the stories in the Bible are true.

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  And so I was looking for books or arguments or something that would rationally convince me that there was indeed a God.

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  I wish I could say faith came into my life with a big flash of lightning and like Jesus walking into my room and saying,

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  come, follow me.

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  But it was definitely nothing like that.

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