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Why religious texts lose their exclusive authority

I can't read the Bible anymore without seeing it as just one story among many and this terrifies me because it used to be my foundation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Exposure to comparative religion has dissolved the special status of one's inherited scripture, creating both intellectual freedom and existential vertigo.

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