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When illness makes prayer feel offensive rather than comforting

My cancer came back and everyone keeps saying they'll pray for me, but I just feel angry at a universe that would let this happen twice and I don't want their prayers.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Suffering is generating rage at divine indifference that makes well-meaning spiritual comfort feel like additional assault rather than support.

Ideas that help explain it
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