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Continuing with that, in terms of the revelation personified as by Jesus Christ,

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how can the U.S. become more devout in its following and have more faith?

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What efforts can we do to lead the American youth towards faith?

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And what do you think is the responsibility of both institutions and individuals in that regard?

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Well, that's a great question, and people are trying to figure out the best way to answer that question.

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I think that in the past, we've done better.

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And I think we've done better because we've educated people in the churches,

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at the level of the youth, all the way up through adulthood,

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about the things that we believe and the best reasons for believing them.

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I think where we've gotten into trouble is when we've become more obsessed, you might say,

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with trends in the culture and fitting in

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and maybe blending in in such a way that we don't live distinctive lives anymore.

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We really need to come back to the basic things that we believe and the best reasons to believe them.

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And I think that people want to know what those things are, but we don't give them credit for it.

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So I think the first thing we do is we just say more, more clearly, what it is that we think is true

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and then give them, as I keep saying now, the best reasons to believe those things.

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People are responsive to that.

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People care about reasons to believe.

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They care about evidence.

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And that's because of the way we're wired as human beings.

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I tell my students two things about every human person.

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Every normal human person, cognitively speaking, is truth-interested.

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We can't help it.

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We want to know what's true.

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Now, it's, you know, truth's not always convenient.

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Maybe we find out certain things are true and we wish they weren't.

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And so we might suppress the truth when we discover what it is.

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But we are fundamentally oriented to discover truth, right?

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That's one thing.

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The second is we are exquisitely evidence-sensitive.

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We respond to evidence.

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We do it even without thinking.

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And then there's evidence that you do have to think about.

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You deliberate.

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You reason.

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You argue with each other.

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And you come to conclusions as a result of reflection.

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But much of the evidence we have, we just respond spontaneously to it.

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It's also how we're made.

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So we're truth-interested and we're evidence-sensitive.

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And evidence is what puts us in touch with what is true.

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So I think that we can count on that when we're talking to people, whether they're older people, middle-aged people, younger adults, or youth.

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We're all responsive to evidence in the interest of acquiring true belief.

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We just need to take that seriously and begin, again, to present that, the arguments, the evidence, and the reasons to believe the things we do.

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I think that's where we start, just making it clear.