'As a child, Alix Jules saw people in church speak in tongues, tremble, fall and have what appeared to be very genuine connections with God. But not him. "I never tingled," he said.
By his twenties, Jules was an atheist. But he never told his family, who were deeply rooted in their predominantly black Catholic congregation. They believed he was having a crisis of faith -- turned off by organized religion but still a believer. For years, he let them think that.'
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