[This post originally appeared on Rekindling the Inner Fire on Dec. 29, 2005.]

“Finding God” is often a religion event in which someone has some sort of “miraculous” – and most importantly – positive experience in which they suddenly realize that some Higher Power (H.P) existed. They’ll tell you all about it too, just look at the Born-Agains.

However I don’t hear a whole lot about positive reasons that people Lose God. It’s always assumed that some negative experience leads to a loss of faith – you didn’t really lose God, he still loves you, you’re just angry with him right now.

Of course, being angry with something that doesn’t exist is just plain silly!

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