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Why offers to pray for you no longer feel comforting

My Christian friends keep saying they'll pray for me when I share struggles and it used to comfort me but now it feels hollow.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Well-meaning spiritual support can become alienating when the recipient no longer shares the underlying belief system.

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