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Anne: So I Persisted

Published: Feb. 20, 2023, midnight

b'This week\\u2019s guest is Anne. Anne grew up in an English family whose Christian history goes back generations. As a young child, Anne and her twin took their beliefs seriously, even the damaging ones.

Her parents\\u2019 divorce shook her up. Her family had been \\u201cthat Christian family,\\u201d and it felt like her parents had become strangers. Still, she clung to her faith throughout her teens and twenties.

Anne married young, meeting an American missionary while in Scotland, but it seemed her partner wasn\\u2019t as devout as she\\u2019d hoped. His was on his own journey through deconstruction but she didn\\u2019t want to see it.

In her thirties, Anne began to acknowledge the questions and psychological distress she\\u2019d had for years. \\u201cIt\\u2019s almost like this pressure had been building and building and building and finally it broke through, and I just thought, What if it\\u2019s not real? I had not allowed myself to ask that question.\\u201d

It took a little googling, excellent therapy and other people\\u2019s deconstruction stories for Anne to see that she no longer believed. It\\u2019s been freeing for her to see the world as it really is. No more \\u201cmagical thinking.\\u201d

She and her partner are asking whole new questions, and it\\u2019s growing them and changing them in ways they never could have imagined.

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https://gracefulatheist.com/2023/02/19/anne-so-i-persisted/

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Attribution

"Waves" track written and produced by Makaih Beats
https://makaihbeats.net/'