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When death makes believers of nonbelievers

I am an atheist but I find myself praying to my dead father and I do not know what that makes me or where I think those prayers go.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The need for ongoing relationship with the dead can override intellectual convictions about the nature of existence.

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