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When others find comfort in faith during tragedy and you feel spiritually homeless

Every time there's a tragedy on the news my coworkers talk about God's plan and I just sit there feeling like an alien because I genuinely don't know if there's any plan at all.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective meaning-making can intensify individual isolation when one's honest position falls outside shared consolations.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Agnosticism — the honest position?”

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