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When churches blame personal suffering on insufficient faith or giving

My prosperity gospel church says my cancer diagnosis is because my faith and giving aren't strong enough and now I feel guilty on top of everything else.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Spiritual communities can compound suffering by attributing natural hardship to moral failure.

Ideas that help explain it
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