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When losing faith feels like betraying deceased religious parents

My father was a pastor and he's been dead for five years but I still haven't told my mother that I don't believe in Christianity because it would destroy the memory of their whole life together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Personal evolution can feel like posthumous abandonment of those who shaped us.

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