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<\/a>\u201cA strangely fascinating power is exerted by those who are utterly sincere.\u00a0 Such believers attract unbelievers, as with the case of David Hume, the eighteenth-century British deistic philosopher who rejected historic Christianity.\u00a0 A friend once met him hurrying along a London street and asked him where he was going.\u00a0 Hume replied that he was going to hear George Whitefield preach.\u00a0 \u2018But surely,\u2019 his friend asked in astonishment, \u2018you don\u2019t believe what Whitefield preaches, do you?\u2019\u00a0 \u2018No, I don\u2019t,\u2019 answered Hume, \u2018but he does.\u2019<\/p>\n