Robert F Kennedy Jr. on how he met God

I had already made a vow to myself that I was going to do anything that improved, even by 1%, my chances of staying sober. So you know I made an intellectual decision I’m going to start believing in God.

Then I confronted the universal dilemma which is how do you start believing in something that you can’t see or smell or touch or taste or hear or acquire with your senses?

Jung answers that question – he says fake it till you make it. Act as if the compliance will precede the evidence, that once you start complying and living like you’re somebody who believes you’ll actually start seeing evidence that will put that supposition beyond any reasonable doubt.

So that’s what I did. I just said, “Okay, I’m going to pretend there’s a God up there, that he’s looking at me the whole time and that everything I do is kind of a moral choice”…