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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.

I'm your host, John DeLin, and I'm very excited to have with us today Dr. James Nagle.

Hi, James.

Hello.

Great to be here.

How are you doing?

Very good.

Good.

Quick introduction.

I've known about James and his work for a long time, but just to keep it short, James

has done a lot of study on the psychology of religion.

And if I could just give a background for why I thought this particular interview would

be interesting, even though James is a PhD in electrical engineering, he really has done

a lot of cool work on understanding why people believe things and specifically believe

things about religion.

And there's really one main purpose to all this as far as I'm concerned, and that's

that regardless of where you live, and we'll get into this later, regardless of what

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