In my previous book, Faith After Doubt, I described an insight I had when I was nearly finished writing: The greatest loss I experienced through doubt was the loss of supremacy, and that loss was one of my greatest gains. (By greatest, I mean the loss that was deepest, most significant, most subtle, and most wonderful.) The beliefs I held so piously had, for all my life, without my consent or even awareness, contributed to a sense of religious privilege, superiority, and supremacy. Those beliefs deserved to be doubted, and if I had not doubted them, that supremacy would still reign as a covert
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