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How to maintain friendship across growing worldview differences

My best friend became religious about five years ago and I've become more skeptical about spirituality in that same time, and we've both been tiptoeing around the fact that we now see reality in fundamentally different ways.

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Two people who built their bond on intellectual intimacy find their core beliefs diverging and don't know how to stay close across that divide.

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