The letters, many of them preserved against her wishes (she had requested that they be destroyed but was overruled by her church), reveal that for the last nearly half-century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever — or, as the book's compiler and editor, the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, writes, "neither in her heart or in the eucharist."I myself feel no presence. It's one of the reasons I'm an agnostic. It is obviously a real phenomenon that many people experience, but one I do not share. At times I am more than a little envious. I think many things would be easier with that feeling supporting you.
I wonder how many atheists feel that presence and consciously reject it? Perhaps the more strident the atheist, the more they feel it and the more they reject it.
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