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How watching innocent suffering destroys religious faith

I used to believe in God but watching my three-year-old suffer through cancer has destroyed my faith and I don't know who I am without it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The theodicy problem becomes unbearably personal when your own child experiences meaningless pain.

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