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Why former believers return to abandoned prayer practices

I've been secretly saying the rosary at night even though I left the church twenty years ago and I don't understand why this brings me comfort when I reject almost everything it represents.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The body holds spiritual memory that operates independently of intellectual belief, creating tension between comfort and conviction.

Ideas that help explain it
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