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How to navigate deathbed conversations when you've lost faith

My dad is dying and keeps asking me to pray with him but I don't believe anymore and I can't decide if lying would be cruel or kind.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between love for a dying person and intellectual honesty about belief creates an impossible ethical choice.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Atheism — philosophical traditions?”

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