Good & Bad Therapy. Or, have we reached "peak trauma"? A conversation with Robert Rowland Smith
Inner Life, Talks and Thoughts
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The Problem of Suffering
Suffering is suffering, and there's absolutely no doubt that at times it really does destroy lives. But paradoxically, my sense is that people often turn to God or turn to religious traditions when things become too much. In Christianity, good Friday comes before Easter Sunday, death comes before resurrection,. Even Jesus cried out on the cross,My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Now, I don't pretend to understand that, and, as I say, feel nervous about even talking about it, but nonetheless, it feels like there is something really worth trying to stay open to in that link"
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