ExCommunications
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ExCommunications

The Unholy Kinship of Faith, Suspended Disbelief and Psychopathy

Submitted by Terry Hill

Suspended disbelief can be defined as the intentional avoidance of critical thinking or logic in examining something unreal or impossible in reality, such as a work of speculative fiction, in order to believe it for the sake of enjoyment. It’s something we learn to do at a very young age.

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Stories from people who have questioned their beliefs, left their faith, navigated doubt, and changed their minds about religion. Some are atheists, some agnostic, and some embrace a different kind of belief. All of them are recovering from religion.

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