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When religious comfort feels like cruelty

My brother died last month and everyone keeps saying it was God's plan but that phrase makes me want to scream.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief often reveals the inadequacy of standard religious explanations to address the raw reality of human suffering.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Religious community and its discontents?”

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