This week, we try to understand an experience that 74% of Americans routinely report having. The first of many conversations (perhaps?). This one, an interview with Zvika Krieger. Support the show: searchengine.show To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Go to viore.com slash pjsearch and discover the versatility of Viore clothing. When I was a kid, I believed in God, the Christian big guy in the sky God. My family wasn't hardcore about it, but we went to church on Sundays. When we kids resisted, we were bribed with donuts. I found Sunday school to be mainly confusing.
I understood the concepts of God and Jesus, but I remember having a lot of questions about the Holy Ghost, this character whose backstory the teachers never seemed to want to fill in. But I believed in God. I prayed every night. I prayed for a long list of everyone I hoped God would protect. Really, everyone I knew. My family, my friends, relatives, the souls of pets who had died.
I couldn't fall asleep until I had prayed. Always the same prayer, every night, until I turned 15. When I was 15, something terrible happened to someone I loved. After that, I only prayed that this one person would be safe. A month later, the same terrible thing happened to them again. And after that, I mostly stopped praying. At first, I think I was pretty angry, but the anger went away.
And then when it was gone, it just felt easier for me to live in a world where everything didn't happen for a reason. A world where when someone I knew got hurt, I didn't have to look for a lesson in it or imagine it as part of a plan. I kept getting older. I didn't think about God very much. But a couple years ago, I had a funny experience.
I was in the desert with a friend, and I had this feeling I'd never had before. It lasted for about a minute. Just this sense, like a physical sense, that the world might just be a shadow of a different world. a place that was more real or more true. It lasted for about one full minute, and then it passed. I did not rush off to start a new religion or join an old one.
I took what had happened with a grain of salt, but I also didn't discard it. It just left me with new questions. I know I'm not allowed to do a podcast called Is God Real? But I did want to try to understand what faith feels like to the people who have it. That question has really been sticking with me. I think I'll probably ask it a lot in the future to different people of different faiths.
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