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Comment author: scav 17 May 2012 09:07:16PM 1 point [-]

Yeah of course the cognitive dissonance was reduced. That made the process much less painful, but it was in no way a retreat back to faith. If anything, most of the cognitive dissonance was already inherent in what I was pretending to believe.