Brian Lair on WNYC, and for our last 15 minutes today, can we solve this in 15 minutes?

We are asking the question, do you believe in God?

Why, if so, why not, if not, or if you're an agnostic,

why are you that? 212-433, W-N-YC, 212, 433-9692. We're doing this, as I mentioned a little earlier in the hour, following some

what I think were really interesting conversations about religion and faith and community on

the show recently because of Ramadan and the Eid and Passover, which ends today, and Easter,

which for non-Orthodox Christians, was last Sunday,

we know Orthodox Easter is coming this Sunday.

Last Friday, we talked about members of Gen X, a little more than before, seeking out religious institutions,

joining them, largely to find community in this isolating time

in our country and our world. And we noticed when we did a follow-up call in on Monday,

that asked, well, if you don't belong to a religious institution,

with so many people citing community as a reason that they do,

where do you find community if you don't belong to a religious institution?

And what we found that day was a lot of people who did not belong to religious institutions

also wanted to say, hey, I don't believe in God.

So we thought, okay, as one more follow-up in this set, we will open up the phones and just let you

go at it, right? And this isn't a debate. It's just an honest question. What has convinced you if you're a

believer or a non-believer or if you're an agnostic? For my part, I consider myself an agnostic,

which means I don't know if God exists or not, and I don't think

I can know. I don't see evidence for anything supernatural, but I also think there may be levels

of consciousness and spiritual dimensions that human beings cannot see, or at least that I can't see,

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