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When loved ones seek religious explanations you can't provide

My dad's cancer is getting worse and he keeps asking why God is punishing him and I don't believe in that kind of God but I don't know what comfort to offer instead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Theological differences become painfully practical when others seek spiritual comfort through frameworks that feel false or harmful.

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