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When spiritual disillusionment feels like bereavement

I feel like I'm grieving the death of someone who never existed because the God I loved was apparently not who I thought God was.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The loss of a divine relationship can produce the same grief patterns as the death of a beloved person.

Ideas that help explain it
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