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When religious trauma complicates loss of faith

My childhood pastor sexually abused me and now thirty years later I still cannot separate the trauma from the faith and I don't know if my loss of belief is healing or just more damage.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Spiritual injury can make it impossible to distinguish authentic doubt from psychological defense.

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