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How to handle survivor guilt in religious context

Everyone at church keeps praising God for my recovery from surgery but I keep thinking about all the good people who didn't recover, and it's making me angry.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Divine favor theology crumbles when confronted with the arbitrary distribution of suffering and healing, forcing acknowledgment of life's fundamental unfairness and mystery.

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