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I'd Like to Go to Rome
'I was just stunned. How do you exist? What are you?' 'It's like finding a platypus for the first time,' he says of meeting young, intelligent Catholics in Rome. His mother tried to steer him away from atheism by taking him to church youth group when he was 12 or 13. But it had all those sappy, ridiculous hymns from the 70s and they turned him off.