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For anyone who may be curious about my religious beliefs, this transcript of an ABC radio doco, Pagans Among Us may offer some insight, for example, this explanation from Ronald Hutton: "The sources of authority lie very much in themselves. There are traditions in Paganism of how you work, but they don't depend upon sacred texts, they don't depend on the idea that goddesses and gods gave human beings rules and orders. They depend upon sets of rituals that enable those who practice them to get very often a very real sense of direct contact with the divine. Whereas religions of the book have traditionally said, 'this is what you should believe', Paganism today tends to say, 'this is how you can encounter the divine. Now it's up to you to work out what you believe about it.'"

If you listen to this segment of RadioLab's The Good Show, you will hear an explanation of the mathematics of grace.