Have you ever prayed fervently while simultaneously wondering if anyone was hearing that prayer? Have you offered someone comfort in faith, while wondering if you believed anything you were saying? For all its bizarreness, the phenomenon of split-brain patients gives me strange comfort. Suddenly, I don’t feel so weird for identifying with both skeptical and spiritual people. There is an atheist in my brain who remains wholly incredulous about the idea of a divine being who once dwelt among us in the form of a man. There is a Christian in my brain who is indescribably and enduringly comforted
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