Dr. David DeSteno

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Did that happen?

Something like that happened.

I may not have the details exactly right, but yes.

But most of them, the reason you don't hear about them is because they're flashes in the pan.

For religion to stick, there's two ways.

One is somebody in power.

You can think about in the old days, the emperor said, this is my faith.

You all will now be this faith.

But in the modern world, that's less.

It tends to be the case when they speak to some need.

And that is their practices and their ideology address someone in a new way.

The people who are leaving faith, they're not becoming atheists.

They're looking for new ways to be spiritual because let's face it.

Most religious institutions, they're human-based institutions.

They have moral failures, right?

And we know that there has been abuse and discrimination and misogyny and all these things attached to faiths.

And hopefully we can talk about that because I don't want people to think that I'm saying religion is always good, although on average I think it is.

It has to speak to you.

And those are few and far between.

Right now, what astounded me is where people are having profound spiritual experiences is a Burning Man.

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