I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.
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I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.
I've dabbled in several different religions.
You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.
To me, the Quran is a research book.
'Orthodoxy' is the seminal book of ideas in my life. That book I've read more than any other book. It's the spinal column that leads up to my brain and informs the way I think. Flannery O'Connor is my favorite American writer.
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.
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