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When you love the community but reject the theology

I love the community at my synagogue but I cannot pretend to believe in a God who chose us above others and I feel like a fraud every Friday night.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The desire for spiritual belonging can conflict painfully with intellectual honesty about doctrinal claims.

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