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When you lose faith but keep the language

I stopped believing in God three years ago but I still catch myself saying 'thank God' when something good happens and I feel like a fraud every time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The residual patterns of religious expression persist even after intellectual conviction has dissolved, creating a sense of internal contradiction.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Atheism — philosophical traditions?”

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