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When religious education destroys religious faith

I studied theology for years and the more I learned about my religion's history, the less I could believe in it, but now I feel like I destroyed the most beautiful thing in my life.

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Knowledge can dissolve the mysteries that once inspired devotion, leaving one intellectually honest but spiritually bereft.

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