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When social pressure creates false spiritual commitment

My coworkers invited me to their church and I said yes to be polite but now I am trapped in a weekly commitment to beliefs that feel foreign to everything I am.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to maintain relationships can lead to participation in religious practices that feel inauthentic to one's actual spiritual state.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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