Dr. David DeSteno

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Huberman Lab · Science & Health Benefits of Belief in God & Religion | Dr. David DeSteno · 25 Aug 2025 podcast

And what will happen now is you'll have people who are coming up for higher positions within the church and look back and show where they, even though they didn't do anything, they were covering things up.

So the echoes of that go on.

But, you know, the point you raise is a good one.

I think it's going to hit certain religions more than others.

So there are certain religions where it's really important to have an intermediary, like in Catholicism, right, for you to get certain sacraments.

The priest is the mediator, right?

Who does the priest?

Does this transubstantiation allows the bread and wine to be turned into the body and blood of Christ that you then receive?

In many other religions, the role of the minister or priest or reverend isn't as important, right?

There's direct experience.

I can experience God directly in my prayers or through my practices.

And so I think a lot will depend on

whether you need that mediator or not.

And I think there is this push among some people to want that direct experience, to not be hindered or have the baggage of the institution upon them.

I'm one of those people who prays at times...

where I'm feeling the stress.

So prayer is not a practice of mine.

I always feel like when I say this, I'm like the doctor who smokes cigarettes, right?

It's like, Dave, you tell people prayer is good.

I'm still kind of working out my belief system.

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