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When family grief conflicts with your atheist beliefs

I'm sitting in my grandmother's funeral service listening to the pastor talk about her being in a better place and I feel like a fraud for not correcting anyone about what she actually believed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief becomes complicated when religious rituals contradict one's authentic worldview and family expectations.

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