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How to process grief when science challenges religious comfort

My brother died of cancer and people keep saying it was God's plan but I know too much about cellular biology to believe that anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Knowledge of natural causation can make traditional theodicy feel both false and cruel.

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“Where Are You with Religion and science — the examined relationship?”

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