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When tragedy challenges your belief in divine purpose

My daughter died in a car accident three months ago and everyone keeps telling me it was God's plan but I want to scream because what kind of God plans for a twenty-two year old to die.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between personal devastation and inherited theological explanations reveals the inadequacy of abstract comfort in the face of raw grief.

Ideas that help explain it
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