Hello, you are listening to the Secular Buddhism Podcast, and this is episode number 15.

I am your host Noah Rasheda, and today I'm talking about the Faith to Doubt.

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and it covers philosophical topics within Buddhism and secular humanism.

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please feel free to share, write a review, or give it a rating. And now let's jump into this week's

topic. So this week I wanted to talk about the topic of Faith and Doubt.

Specifically, the concept of having the Faith to Doubt. So a few weeks ago, while I was in China

on a business trip, I had an experience that I think does a really good job of relating or explaining

kind of what the whole concept of Faith and Doubt actually means. So leading up to this story,

just a little bit of background, I've been working with a new supplier for almost a year now.

And in that amount of time, we've gotten to know each other, but we've never actually met.

And something that happens in a lot of Asian cultures, or at least in China,

people choose their own Western name to make it easier to communicate with Westerners like me.

And I have contacts that I work with there that there's a Jason and there's a Wyatt and there's

Mr. Lee and they kind of pick their Western names. And with this new supplier, it's no different.

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