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When sacred texts feel inappropriate for vulnerable moments

My dying father asked me to read him Ecclesiastes but the passages about vanity and meaninglessness seem cruel to share with someone facing death.

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Textual honesty about suffering conflicts with the desire to provide comfort.

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