Derek Thompson
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A rabbi, a priest.
Yeah, a rabbi, a priest, an imam, a monk, and a swami all walk into a bar.
And so that's what I did.
Now, I don't know anybody else who's ever done this before, but I had the opportunity to do it in a place that I don't think I could do it anywhere else on earth, which is in Singapore.
where literally on one street you will find a church and a mosque and a synagogue and a Buddhist temple.
Really, that's the kind of ethnic diversity they have there.
And so I walked in and I asked the same question of every single one of these religious leaders.
It wasn't an exhaustive study.
It was just five religious leaders.
And what was interesting, one kind of passed me on to the next to the next.
So the first stop was with the rabbi.
And I asked Rabbi Mordechai the same question.
How does one pray when you have doubts about God?
Can you have doubts about God and still pray?
And he sits in his office and he looks at me and says, so there's this omnipotent, all-knowing, all-being force.
And you don't have any doubts.
You don't have any questions.
You have perfect certainty.
Really?
Really?