I’m persuaded that there are many more sufferers in this place than we tend to think. I am also convinced that many of them don’t know that they’ve reached these conclusions. The reason so many sufferers aren’t aware that they’ve given up on God is that the process of theological change hasn’t been self-consciously philosophical; it’s been much more of a traumatic emotional-situational process. The surprise of situational distress has produced deeply emotional questions that have led them to deeply theological conclusions, but it’s been nothing like the sort of theological debate found in a
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