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How to answer a child's spiritual questions when you've lost your faith

My daughter asks me about God and heaven and I don't know what to tell her because I don't want to lie but I also don't want to take away her sense of wonder and safety.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The responsibility to nurture a child's spiritual imagination conflicts with one's own loss of belief, creating a crisis of parental guidance.

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